the ever-unfinished task

1) Perhaps the most personally frustrating thing about life is that it's a journey and not a destination. You can't ever be finished with life (at least I guess not until it's actually over). You can't ever be perfect.

I like five-minute tasks. I like things you can finish. I don't like things that don't end and get tidied up cleanly. Life is messy.

I spend my day sorting my tasks out for the day from easiest-to-complete to hardest. Then I go about them and thrive on the satisfaction of finished tasks. And I've written about this before. Checking off a box on my to-do list is as satisfying as ripping off a scab.

Life doesn't resolve. Donald Miller wrote about that, and I forgot he did. I love that book - Blue Like Jazz. He says jazz never resolves. It's like life.

I want to just sit and smell the roses and enjoy all of creation. The current moment, what I've been given. To just be. Isn't that the point?

"We aren't human doings, we're human beings."
- Jaeson Ma (or some other clever person)

2) "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."
- Philippians 4:6-9

3) "In the morning, oh Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation."
- Psalm 5:3

4) I'm about to change my blog title. Thinking about it intently.