A good friend from my writers group, Nancy R., is my guest blogger today. She sent me the verse below with this accompanying note: “When you asked for stand-in bloggers, I thought of sharing the following. I think it’s a lovely example of how meaningful relationships are. And relationships are SO important when one is struggling with cancer.”

This is taken from Honey From The Rock; Ten gates of Jewish Mysticism by Lawrence Kushner.

Each lifetime is the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
For some there are more pieces.
For others the puzzle is more difficult to assemble.

Some seem to be born with a nearly completed puzzle.
And so it goes.
Souls going this way and that
Trying to assemble myriad parts.

But know this. No one has within themselves
All the pieces to their puzzle.
Life before the days when they used to seal jigsaw
Puzzles in cellophane. Insuring that
All the pieces were there.

Everyone carries with them at least one and probably
Many pieces to someone else's puzzle.
Sometimes they know it.
Sometimes they don't.

And when you present your piece,
Which is worthless to you,
To another, whether you know it or not,
Whether they know it or not,
You are a messenger from the Most High.