A New Thing

I find it easy to say, with complete confidence, that God is indeed doing a new thing. That's just how God is (we can see it all over the Bible); he's always doing a new thing - creating, redeeming, restoring, re-ordering.
It gets a little harder, though, when I try to pinpoint exactly what new thing God might be doing in my life, in my world. Joshua has one of those photomosiac jigsaw puzzles, a bunch of tiny pictures of Abraham Lincoln on the individual pieces form one large picture of Abe. Now, I'm not any good at puzzles when they're simple, but this one even frustrated my semi-idiot-savant puzzle-doing husband. It's harder to see how the bigger picture all fits together when I'm so consumed with the tiny pictures right in front of me.
How do you discern what God is doing in/through/with (or without) you?

That's not a rhetorical question. I'm really wondering.