As a child I enjoyed putting large jigsaw puzzles together. I remember the joy of getting a new 500 or more piece puzzle, looking at all of the pieces and the challenge of trying to put them together like the picture on the box. The first thing I would do is find all of the edge pieces, put them together and then begin filling in the inside. It took a long time but eventually the last piece was put into place and the puzzle was finished. The only way to complete the puzzle was to work from the outside in, and this is what we are doing now, setting our intention and then working through everything that stands between us and its fulfillment.

The boundaries that we establish for our reality are like the edge pieces of the puzzle. We set our intention for what we want to create and then as we are focused on that, everything that needs to be 'filled in' comes to the forefront for us. Everything that needs healing, resolution, every person or situation that holds some kind of energetic resonance that is contrary to what we want to create is 'in our face' because that energy is out of synch with what we want to create.

All of our energy work follows natural and Universal law, the most of important being that energy does not simply disappear. We transform the energies that are of a lower vibration than what we wish to have in our life by transforming our relationship with them. And there are many to do this, through disconnection, new intentions, release and forgiveness. This is our 'home work', the inner work that every intention for transformation requires. While we can set an intention for something new, the delay between asking and receiving is the space in which we do our inner work to shift our energy to its level.

There is a real art to putting puzzles together, which requires determination, focus, concentration and perseverance. The pieces fit together a specific way and sometimes it is hard to figure out where a piece should go. We can get discouraged and quit, take a break and come back when we aren't frustrated or ask for help. Eventually we see the pattern in the pieces and the process moves more quickly. Then suddenly the puzzle is a completed picture. We can either take it apart and start again or get a new puzzle. We are all working through our puzzles right now and while it seems complicated, it is just a process of learning, healing and understanding. Once we see the pattern in what we are doing, we can get into the flow of the energies and the answers come to us. Then one day, we understand and the puzzle is no longer a puzzle. Then we're ready to move on to the next one.