A Work In Progress

Today’s essays inspiration was handed to me by a person I had a personal dislike for. That person had a violent temper, in my book he was obnoxious, he was boastful, and everything he did turned me off! Yet, just as I was flipping channels, there he was. And, as it was meant to be and at that instant the person asking questions ask “are you a changed man?” His reply was “no, I’m a work in progress.” There he was, a person I had a great dislike for and he had given me the subject! It was then that My Friend pushed my button and told me to write it down! Never before had someone I disliked given me the subject for a blog! As I’ve said before, I never know where the inspiration for my next blog will come from but I always know it will be there when I need it.
Now, let’s get back to this work in progress! Our Lord has given each of us His two most precious gifts; our bodies and each second of our lives. From our birth until our death we’re always a work in progress. How progressive we want our work to be is up to us.
Our work started years ago when we first learned we could make others smile when we first learned to say ma-ma or maybe it was when we learned it felt better to use the potty than to run around in a dirty diaper!
Our lives are nothing more than endless goals and endless learning. It’s hard for me to understand why older people feel that once they reach a certain number of years it’s time to stop or slow up their learning progress.
Many of our lives goals are set for us by others. That’s fine in the beginning but it is impossible for anyone else to climb into our bodies and our brains and think for us. It’s only we that know the true us and much of the time even we wonder! It’s almost impossible to live our lives while trying to live up to the expectations of others.
Please let me ask you a few thinking questions. Are others happy with your life? Do you care? Are you happy with your life? Do you really care? Do you believe in yourself? Do you believe in God? Do you really believe in God? If not who do you believe in? Do you set goals for yourself? Do you set true goals for yourself? If you set many goals for yourself that you never reach, are you setting your goals too high, or do you just step back and use a limp excuse and never try to analyze why those goals were never met? But, if you never set goals how will you ever know if you get there?
A work in progress never means standing still! As long as there is a breath of life left in our bodies, I will never stop trying to improve that life. God continues to place many blessings in each of our lives every day; many are placed there to improve our life. Possibly one of our goals should be learning to recognize those blessings.
There’s a Hindu prayer that goes something like this;” I pray that God gives me strength to do the best I can.” I think that fits us all. It’s our work in progress, let’s do it the best we can.