A life is shattered. Its pieces lie before them. Can the pieces ever be put together making life whole once again? Impossible, so it seems. Devastated, they stares at the confused muddle of the pieces of their life. Their children were doing well in school. They both had good jobs. Life was predictable, everything following the script.
Until a monster named Cancer entered their home and the pieces fell apart. They hadn’t spent quality time with their healthy kids in months. Strangers – Ezer Mizion volunteers – made them suppers and did homework with them. They, the parents, alternated between rushing – job to hospital, hospital to home for a shower and back to hospital to take over next shift. At times rushing and at times emotionally paralyzed, unable to move forward an inch.
Will life ever be the same?
Elad, an active Ezer Mizion volunteer, loves puzzles and he loves people. And so a new project was born. Both kids and adults found puzzles therapeutic. As many as 1500 pieces in disarray become, once again, a complete whole. Perhaps… perhaps the same could happen to our lives? A small smile. A flutter of encouragement. They begged the Puzzle Man, as he was dubbed, to return again and again.
After October 7, puzzles were introduced to wounded soldiers. Elad bought the biggest puzzle in the world – with 60,000 pieces to make one giant picture of a map of the world. For a year we worked on it – a puzzle of 9 by 2.5 meters. We dedicated the final product in memory of our friends who were killed in the war.
Ezer Mizion joins Elad in praying for restored health for all of the patients enabling the pieces to, once again, come together creating normal lives for them all.
