I am still in bed, drinking my coffee.  Yes, how lucky can a woman be?  My husband brought me coffee in bed, and it’s not even weekend!  (Love him to bits!)

Today is a busy day and to save time I decided to answer my FB messages while enjoying my coffee. 
 
This is the first message that pops up

“Lianne, yesterday morning I stood in front of the mirror and looked at myself without clothes on, and for the first time ever …. I found I was actually able to thank God for my beautiful body – imperfectly perfect. I am now much more grateful and thankful for it and how it has blessed me in every way and I will choose to now live forever grateful for how it’s been made, how unique it’s formed, and how well it’s not only served me but been a blessing to me by giving me my children and fulfilling so so many needs /desires/satisfaction etc in life …indeed another Aha moment of transforming my thoughts and feelings about myself and my value and worth! thank You !”

By the end of the message, the words are very blurry through my tears.  This lady is currently doing the Blossom in Prosperity program and she attended the free Blossom in Confidence workshop of the past week, and something HUGE has shifted in her mind.  

My heart is singing!  This is what I want for women: to see their beauty, to find their worth, to be joyful, to live with meaning…

I stare out the window, take another sip of coffee and my mind rewinds to March 2016. It was 15 months since my business partner of 17 years emigrated, the season of 1^st Solutions (our successful training company) ended, and I had no idea what was supposed to be my next step, season, business… I was terribly sad, confused, and despondent.

Day after day I sat on my bed, where I am having my coffee now, begging God for answers.  “Just give me one puzzle piece, Lord, just one… I just need something to give me hope.”

And then one morning, I randomly opened my Bible and scanned the page without the motivation to read anything.  My eyes caught sight of 2 words:  the brokenhearted… I read Isaiah 61:1 with intent and knew I have received my first puzzle piece.

I was excited, walked to my bookshelf and 5 books ‘jumped’ out at me.  I took them to my comfort spot, my bed, looked at the titles, flipped through the pages, and realised I now have 2 puzzle pieces.

But how on earth do you build a puzzle, when you do not know what the picture looks like???

My puzzle-piece journey taught me that I cannot do life on my own because my knowledge and insight are limited – especially when I don’t know what I don’t know.  It is then that I need other people to give me the next puzzle piece. 

But I was too proud and possibly too ashamed to acknowledge that I cannot build my life puzzle on my own…. And, this is quite hard for me to say, but I was also too stingy, not thinking that spending money (on me) is part of getting the next puzzle piece.  (And how I overcame that is a story for another day).

Today, I just want to assure you, that reaching out for the next puzzle piece of YOUR life, is perfectly ok.  Value yourself enough, to take that step, whatever it may look like