Have you ever played with legos as a child?  I think the most I was ever able to do with my set was make a wall.  I guess my mind back then wasn’t able to think outside of a linear design.  Then again, I was one of those kids that colored inside the lines.

What if we saw our world as a bunch of legos?  That based on the legos we had and how they were constructed, we saw our lives?  What if we forgot they were legos and saw them as unchangeable, immutable, and conformed our lives to the legos?

The reason I pose this question is because tonight, as I walked around my neighborhood, I thought about this concept.  That I, for the majority of my life, saw things around me as limited variables.  They were part of the small scope of variability that I would think about and mismatch these possibilities in the microcosm that was my life.  With this mindset, I may have been a good actuary.

As I was walking, I started thinking in this mindset, only calculating the factors and the objects that were known.  I saw the lego pieces as how they were already built and accepted them as they were.  Then I stopped myself.

What if I switched the lego pieces?  What if I redesigned the board?  What if I broadened my scope?

The very word legos in Latin means “pick”, as in “select”, or in this case to “opt” and also to “congregate”.

So looking at the pieces I have in front of me, why don’t I redesign the board?  I can refashion the pieces to be something beneficial rather than not.  I can “pick” which pieces should “congregate” and “opt” to make the new overall piece better than it was before.

It reminded me, I can also opt to see farther, to expand my vision wider, and to not accept the limited view I was existing in.

So I’m taking some of my lego pieces and doing a massive redesign.  I’m taking down some walls and expanding my scope.  If I see my resources as limited, I shift my gaze to new resources and force my mind to see all my options to include that which is beyond my immediate reach and to recognize that they too are available to me.

So where does religion come in.  Good question.

It’s about trusting more than what the flesh can do and about what the Lord is capable of.  It’s about seeing beyond your strength and trusting God to provide you the resources necessary to move forward.  It also means looking at what’s before you with different eyes.  It is remembering what happened with 5 loaves and 2 fish.  It’s looking at the capabilities of David when he was just a shepherd boy facing Goliath when he only had a slingshot and 5 smooth stones.  And it’s like making the choice when you’re the brother of the prodigal son, whether to get angry at the father, or enjoy the inheritance that you are guaranteed.  And lastly, it’s about praying and believing you have it, because by virtue of believing it’s manifestation is a possibility, it is yours.

Time to exercise this theory.