Pieces of My Heart — David Wood

Stories of great lessons found all around us in our normal everyday lives if we will dare to open our eyes and see. Excerpts from the book: I think trying to understand when something bad happens is often like opening a 1,000 piece puzzle, pulling out a couple pieces and trying to understand the whole puzzle from the few pieces we are looking at. Though we try and try, it is just not possible. But God sees the picture that is on the outside of the box. He has the big picture, the finished puzzle, the completed vision. In this puzzle we call life, since we only see a small piece of the whole picture, some things are going to happen that we do not understand, due to our limited perspective. From “One Piece of the Puzzle” So on my counter, behind the sink in my kitchen lives this little sometimes green plant. It has been there for many years and somehow has survived the harsh cruel treatment it has received. Actually, more accurately, it is just the sporadic attention that it has had to endure as no one in the house, that I know of, has malicious intent toward the cute little guy. We are guilty of only leafing . . . I mean leaving it unattended until it is near death on many occasions. From “Let Us Water One Another” About the Cover The front cover is symbolic of my children, for whom this book was written. They are all loved and cherished in my heart and therefore, each one is represented by a piece of my heart. The missing piece of the heart and the butterfly flying overhead are symbolic of my son, Daniel, who died shortly before his first birthday. Losing Daniel was the hardest thing I have faced in this life and he took a piece of my heart with him to heaven when he left. The butterfly is flying toward the sun, which is a representation of God and our eternal life to come. On the back cover, there is a lighthouse. This lighthouse is Jesus, who leads us and guides us through this wild ride we call, “life.” From the Publisher Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote, “A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music.... And people flock around the poet and say: ‘Sing again soon' �" that is, ‘May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.'” David L. Wood is a singer of soul-healing words, because, like many writers, poets, and other types of artists, he has walked through the fire �" a literal house fire that took the life of his first-born son, not yet a year old. Since then, the Lord has healed his heart, and helped David transform his weeping into music for other troubled souls. �" David B. Biebel, Fellow Pilgrim