My son laughs, Everything is a Tetris game to mom!
Have you played the game of Tetris? In Tetris, combinations of squares forming various shapes, continue to drift down from the top of the page. The player controls the orientation of the shapes and determines their placement as they set down at the bottom. When a row is completely filled, it is deleted. The challenge is that no row of blocks has any unfilled spaces before the row above it is filled. The object of the game is to rotate the shapes in order to delete lines as quickly as they are formed. A Russian Scientist invented the game in 1984!
When playing Tetris, the piece you choose determines the next piece that is sent down.
It’s like life. I’ve always said whenever we have trials, it’s a God allowed adversity. We all have trials. The external circumstances are different for each of us, all with the same purpose to get close to God.
For me, I was interested in nutrition at a young age. Had I embraced what I learned, and applied it in my life, perhaps I wouldn’t have gotten MS as my adversity (no one knows). I didn’t embrace the nutrition (I decided to cook as my husband liked and be a a milk and cookies mom, warm cookies waiting for the kids when they get off the school bus.
I have learned great things living with MS! It really has been a bag of gold. I’ve gotten close to God, my husband and I have become best friends, and the list goes on!
When talking to my husband about it the other night, thinking about all the blessings we’ve received because of my MS experience, he asked if I wasn’t a bit grateful for the MS.
I thought, no, I’m really not. It was a very expensive price to pay to learn what I’m learning. I think that if I had embraced nutrition, as I am now, I wouldn’t have suffered with MS. I’m sure another combination of squares (COS) would have been dropped down. I’d have had different trials to learn and grow from.
No matter, it would have been an opportunity, possibly even more difficult, and I’d have learned what the Lord wanted me to learn.
God sees what we need, considers what we can handle, and allows opportunities to happen so that we can get where he wants us to be.
The decisions we make will determine what comes next. Just like a game of Tetris!
What has your COS looked like? I met a wonderful friend online, just today, Debbie Stevens, and she’s dealing with her Combination of Squares beautifully!
December 28th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
“It’s like life. I’ve always said whenÂever we have triÂals, it’s “God allowed adverÂsityâ€. We all have triÂals. The exterÂnal cirÂcumÂstances are difÂferÂent for each of us, all with the same purÂpose – to get close to God.”
So if you are born into an upper middle class or wealthy family in any society and your parents are naturally bright then you have very few REAL trials compared to most normal or poor people and consequently,wealthy people become less close to God as witnessed by all the corruption in the world and the descent of the USA and its leaders into economic and spiritual chaos. I don’t expect you to agree with this but it explains just about all the problems with almost every society.
December 28th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Maybe I don’t understand what you’re saying, you said you don’t expect me to agree, but I agree! I am very grateful for a hardworking, middle class family who I knew loved me! With a wonderful beginning, I was gifted to learn all I need to know to have a wonderful life! I was able to find God, and the rest is history! Now I need to choose wisely – create “combinations of squares” that fill the rows with out any blanks! Reality is, I was gifted! And I’m grateful! Anyone, no matter what their beginning was can do the same ~
February 12th, 2010 at 2:15 am
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February 14th, 2010 at 9:01 am
a great story Linda,
and I agree life is so much like a game.
God know how much we can handle I believe.
I am not familiar with the game Tetris, but it sounds like a great game.
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February 14th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
I’m not a video game player either by nature, the kids got me going on this one and I’m hooked! You know it! It’s all about the Lord and personal growth! I’ve had days that I don’t feel like playing! Like you, I realize that God knows how much we can handle!
February 18th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Yes, I too try to remember that God only gives us as much as we can handle. I like your analogy here. Life is like tetris- we find our way and keep on living!
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November 2nd, 2011 at 11:05 pm
For the best part, the game tetris is like life. How you will play the game will determine the results. In life, how you will live it will determine what you will be.
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November 7th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Candice,
I keep stumbling on your comments~ thank you for taking the time!
Linda
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November 17th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
I’m sorry but in every teris game i have played, you don’t choose your piece. And your next pieces are already predetermined no matter what you do. In life and tetris, you have to make do with the pieces you are dealt. And as for William H. Stewart’s comment, I don’t think it matters if you are rich or poor or “normal” to be happy. People can still work hard and be happy no matter what pieces they have been given.
November 19th, 2011 at 4:16 pm
ME,
My old handheld Tetris just died! I HAD to get a new one, as I sit in the car waiting for the kids I love to play!!!! My new game is exactly as you say, you can see the next pice before you even play the one you’re on, my old one wasn’t that way. It was an old cell phone game and depending where you laid your piece a new one was chosen for you. I really doesn’t matter, reality is like you say, we can find joy no matter what pieces were given!
Linda
January 2nd, 2012 at 3:53 am
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February 3rd, 2012 at 4:59 am
Lol I agree with this because sometimes we have a mistake that we can never come back and follow the present day..
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