Continuing this week are several projects that have yet to be completed or can be completed. That bothers me. Does it bother you? I like for things to be completed. I find satisfaction and a sense of accomplishment in reaching a conclusion an end. These projects have been on going and one or two have not made any progress because of others. However, one or two are not going anywhere because I have not done anything about them. Sure, I have been praying about them but not doing anything about them. You know when you have a health issue and you pray and complain or complain and pray about it but never schedule an appointment at the Dr’s office! That’s what I have been doing with some of these projects.
Knowing that I like it when a project is completed. I wonder if Disney did that to me. You know all of the Disney movies where they live “happily ever after.” The ending where the good guy wins and destroys the bad guy. Chuck Norris television and films, Steven Segal movies, John Wayne westerns and war movies, I like all of those. They finish well (meaning how I want them to). As opposed to life that rarely finishes well or “happily ever after.” The TV show Extreme Makeover was a joy to watch a family in need being helped and the energy and care that went in from the community and cast until that moment of the reveal when the family is overwhelmed by the finished home. That was always warm and fuzzy. But then came the stories of what happened later to the families or what the families chose to do. The same is said of large lottery winners, super star athletes etc. who have a financial blessing only later to fall into bankruptcy, no happily-ever-after there for them.
We allow ourselves to be lulled into the fantasy that everything here ends well. Some in the entertainment industry buck this trend by releasing movies that don’t end as we hope. Several years ago my family watched War Horse on Netflix. It is about a boy/man and horse enduring World War I. The events for both are horrific. Just about the time something good might happen something bad did happen. They never quit connected until the very end when they meet up bruised and battered going home. No victory parade, no medals, no heroic save-the-day, their win is surviving and going home alive together. All of us just sat there stunned at the end. We said we were traumatized by what happened in between. That is more like life is her for us. Even in the Bible there are many stories that don’t end “happily ever after.” The story of Jonah, Noah has a poor ending, Hosea buys Gomer back, Paul and John are in prison yet all had faith in an ending unseen by them. We call it faith. Now faith is the reality of what is hoped for, the proof of what is not seen. Hebrews 11:1 HCSB
Well, there is my answer. I will always be in the middle when I am counting on Jesus to be the end and that’s OK.
Bro G
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