TRUE TALK: Beauty in the unfinished

A wise friend of mine shared her thoughts after she was driving around town after the hurricane. She said, “Seeing construction everywhere you go is a little sad to me. It reminds me that nothing will ever be finished here....

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A wise friend of mine shared her thoughts after she was driving around town after the hurricane. She said, “Seeing construction everywhere you go is a little sad to me. It reminds me that nothing will ever be finished here.

You’ll never go somewhere and find it fully complete. It will never be all the way beautiful. Something is always being added to, taken down, “improved.



” Nothing will ever be perfect. It will be perfect in heaven-but that feels so far away. So long from now.

So hard to grasp and believe fully.” Her words resonated with me. I couldn’t help but think about my own life.

All the things that I am always working towards with only the end goal in mind. Whether it’s laundry, homework with the kids, working out, home improvement stuff, work tasks, whatever it is, I’m usually doing those things with the end result as the motivation. But I can’t help but think, what would happen if I stopped focusing so much on the end result and instead I worked to find beauty in the unfinished thing? As human beings, we will never be complete on this side of heaven.

We will never be perfect. If we spend our time trying to be complete, we will spend all this time wasting our efforts. I can’t help but think, we are missing the mark, or at least I know I am, every single day when we don’t just allow ourselves to enjoy the process instead of always trying to get to the end.

So what if we try to enjoy this moment. This one, right now. What’s beautiful around you right now? What can you be thankful for in your unfinished world? For me, I’m finding I’m breathing easier just slowing down enough to think through that.

Colossians 3:2 says, “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” While living in the moment and being okay with unfinished things is something we can all strive for, we also know that it’s very difficult to do. We are humans.

We are broken and we live in a broken world. There will be times where we become anxious about circumstances in our life. There will be occasions where we become overwhelmed by all the unfinished projects in our life.

It’s normal. So maybe during those times, we try to memorize Colossians 3:2. Maybe during those times, we can work to remind ourselves that there is something coming, that is more beautiful than any finished project on earth could ever be.

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