Living the "In-Between"

No doubt all of us experience almost never being able to finish a job we set out to do: a lawn to cut, a garden to plant of weed, a table to clean off,  an article to read, a letter to write.  Something always comes in between, interrupts us and prolongs what should not have been a long job. .  We say "I'll finish that later, but "later" takes weeks to arrive, if ever.  Then we look at ourselves, so "in-between"are we!  "For I do not do the good I want, but d the evil I do not want." (Rom 7: 19).  The law of "in-between" finds us always straining to finish the task of doing the good, but slipping into the bad, over and over again. It can be discouraging unless we remember that God is more than patient with us.  His compassion sends the sun to shine on us day after day despite our inability to "stick to our program."  How often do we keep coming back to children with compassion as they try to walk, hit a ball,  learn to dribble and shoot, or make bad choices along the way? We realize that they are just growing and learning, and that it takes TIME to master even the obvious.  So too with us...God, as the adage goes, "is not finished with us."  He's at ease with the "in-between" and that should bring us the peace that will enable us to finish the job in HIS good time.
Bro. Rene