Lego, Let Go and Let God

As boy growing up I had a box of Lego. The box was a white plastic box made by my father who was a plastic engineer; fabricated from a flat 2 foot by 2 foot sheet with 6 inch wall on each of the 4 sides. Inside the square box were a number of compartments, boxes within boxes ideal for storing the Lego. In this box everything had its place; 8 blob red bricks, 2 blob yellow, 4 blob blue, railway track, wheels tyres and so on. Keeping each item in its place should have been easy but in concentrating on building I wasn’t always focused on putting the right piece in its place, I was so absorbed in the construction.  This meant every now and then I would tip the entire box out on the floor and put things back in their tidy places.

I loved Lego and thinking about it I can now so easily apply Lego to my life. Yes Lego may have been the starting block for many engineers, sadly I am not an engineer well not the kind of engineer that builds or repairs thing the only Engineer I have become is an engineer of life. Lego in many ways teaches a young child a great deal and one of those things taught is something I have been pondering while resting and recovering from flu-like symptoms.

Lego, unlike life, comes in a box with instruction on how to build the toy. Whether it be a simply toy car or a complicated and sophisticated modern-day lego robot, it comes with instructions. Life would be easy if it came with instructions and I most certainly would not now be working with a personal life coach. Here’s the other thing about Lego, it’s easy to take apart and rebuild with.  Piece and instructions would make life easy,  imagine if every time you made a mistake you could just break the problem off from life and rebuild it with the correct piece or pieces and make things right. In life that is something so many wish they could do and yes it can be done.

To move on in life you need to look at how you are built, look at the lego blocks that make you who and what you are. When born you didn’t have an instruction manual, but and here is the big but, the fact you have lived means you now have a set of instructions… its called life.  With what you have lived you can now rebuild.

Personally I have decided to unpack the instructions of life, I have needed some help and I am so grateful I found it.  I had some extra tools with my instructions;  firstly my faith and secondly my positive outlook on life and thirdly and finally a deep desire for change. The first step to change in yourself is to let go, let go of what you have built, don’t be afraid to dismantle what you have built and have the courage to rebuild using the new instructions you now have.

Looking back, Lego taught me so much and for that I am grateful. Lego gave me a mind to think and an understanding of the fact that things can rebuilt if needed and you can always add on to the instructions, provided you have the pieces, and improve or enhance the end product. 

There is only one way forward in life if you do not have what you truly desire out of it,  you have to re-evaluate, then let go of all you have and then re-build.  Let Go and Let God is never truer,  and if you think of your life as little plastic blocks its simple… Lego, Let Go and Let God.

Sit back and look at your life, look at what you have been given, be grateful for all you have and even more grateful for the little extras you have.  You are truly blessed, you were given everything you needed to succeed in life the moment you were born… now go ahead and don’t be afraid to use what you have!

So, are you ready to Le’go and live life?  The choice is yours