Laura and Jon, May 2024 My sister has gone to be with Jesus. I miss her already. From the very start, Laura’s life was a puzzle—a carefully crafted puzzle, guaranteed by the Maker to be beautiful. There was no picture on the box for this puzzle, though, just a mystery to be revealed one piece at a time. And I suppose that analogy could describe the life of any child of God. But it seems especially true of Laura who, fittingly, loved jigsaw puzzles. Slow-paced, tedious activities were her thing. She liked sticker books, color-by-number pages, and word searches. But she loved puzzles the best. She spent countless hours snapping together edge pieces, sorting colors, testing a connection, turning a piece, testing it again, until one by one the pieces came together to form the picture. Maybe it was the scenery of a farmstead, or a picture of colorful ocean life,...