Finished

Being a blog author has given me a better understanding of what it means to be finished. I’m someone who tends to start things but not finish them. Thankfully I find myself living by a new set of standards when if comes to blogging, because it is one thing to have an idea for an article and quite another to have one ready to be published online. Hopefully this standard of completion will filter it way into other aspects of my life.

In keeping with this idea of finishing, over the past few months a thought has been in frequent rotation in my mind. The thought is this “my life is the finished draft”. What this means is that the tasks which I try my hand at everyday are not counted as complete in and of themselves, but only counted as complete to the extent in which they change the nature of who I am. For example it does me no good to write about how I need to be some one who finishes things without actually becoming some one who finishes things. Likewise it does us no good to read and recite verses about loving God and loving our neighbor unless we become people who love God and our neighbor. To this respect none of us are ever finished just closer to completion that when we started.