Just sent you a challenge. Other than that, I'd suggest reading. Silman's Reassess Your Chess and The Amateur's Mind, along with Euwe's Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur, have been extremely helpful to me.
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The comments you got already sum it up nicely. Every beginner feels this way. Silman has good books (amateur's mind and later the reassess books which don't be fooled by the title I still get info out of these). Understanding comes gradually, and the best thing to do as a "noob" is to play (and lose 
) lost of games against players who are around 200 points stronger than yourself.
Basically the more you play the more things make sense. Knowing endgames gives your middlegame meaning and knowing middlegames gives your opening meaning. This is why endgames should be brought up to par with your level of play before the other phases. As far as endgames right now, just be sure to know the basic checkmates, king a pawn vs king, and the like.
I should also mention the book "Logical Chess: Move by Move" by Chernev. This is a book of games that is fantastic for beginners because it explains every move of every game every time. It keeps the analysis short and sweet , but it's not so simplistic as to only be for beginners. I had an expert tell me he's beaten other experts with ideas from that book.
Oh, also shoop's suggested book Euwe's "Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur" is another great one along the same lines as Chernev's.
Great advices to N.B. Currenty doing some greeter games and will refer them.
Shoop2: I'd love to learn a few things from you too. Please accept the challenge I sent and give me a few pointers.
I feel the same way theseancraig. After about the sixth or seventh move I feel lost, playing just one or two moves ahead. I've found the posters here to be very helpful. They know what they are talking about. Good luck and keep playing.
So this is probably just another of tons of similar posts, and I apologize in advance for not scouring through more of the forums first, but here we go.
After learning to play chess ~15 years ago, I just recently began playing somewhat frequently. Until about a month ago I played maybe a handful of games a year. I'm trying to learn what I can - visiting the daily puzzle, doing the daily tactics problems, and reading around the site. A lot of the literature on the site just seems so far over my head that I feel it's not really helping me. I'm unable to appreciate a lot of the apparently awesome events that occur in posted games as I can't really discern why the moves made were so great (that is, until the checkmate or resignation occurs).
My usual opening is usually sort of a random combination of e4, Nc3, Nf3, Bc5, blah blah. I know that these are somewhat standard moves but I don't really understand what purpose they serve in the "big picture," I feel like I make most moves because that's what I'm supposed to do at the start of a game. Apart from the immediate tactical pros/cons of certain moves, I'm having a hard time seeing the significance of or deciding what move to make next if it doesn't have an immediate effect.
So where can I go/what can I do to learn more about the significance of these moves (openings and more)? Are any gracious educators willing to play a CC game and perhaps make some explanations/suggestions afterwards? Does Chess.com have a resource helpful for this that I've yet to find?
Thanks!