Unfinished Stuff

These last days have been spent largely on getting the garden area cleaned up once again so that the fall garden can be planted without leftover summer weeds.  Since much of the gardening around here is done in raised beds, the work has not only cleaned up the beds where plants were planted, but also the walking and working aisles between the beds.  After the work was largely completed, there was a sense of satisfaction at having reached a finished stage, but then came the look back which spoke the reminder that there was still more to do.  Anyone who gardens knows there is always unfinished stuff.

 

It should not be any surprise that such is true of gardens when it is that way with life.  There are those moments when it might seem to us that everything is done and that there is nothing more to do, but such is rarely true.  Life is as much about unfinished business as it is about looking back and feeling good about what has been done.  To think of our spiritual life as a journey is to put it into a context of something always in process and not yet completed. 

 

The road we travel with Christ is always about unfinished stuff.  There is always room for us to grow in our understanding of what it means to walk with Him.  There is always another act of kindness and mercy which we can offer in service to others and to Christ.  And no matter how many years and miles we have travelled in faith, there are still more years and miles ahead of us.  Of course, it could also be true that the next step on this journey of faith will be the last one we take on this earth and if such is true, then there is still one bit of unfinished business before us, but it rest completely in the hands of Christ who has risen from the dead.