{"id":341,"date":"2014-01-20T14:39:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/?p=341"},"modified":"2025-07-04T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T20:07:50","slug":"incomplete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/2014\/01\/20\/incomplete\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomplete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I came to the startling realization that it is the middle of January and 2014 is now well underway. The crazy thing is I have no idea what will happen this year. I am trying to think back and I can’t come up with a time when life felt this fluid.<\/p>\n

As I contemplated this I began to feel comfort in Philippians 1:6 “And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns” (NLT).<\/p>\n

When I look back I can clearly see all the ways God has moved to bring things to this point, because of this I should be confident God is already at work in this blank slate before me. However, when I stare out into nothingness all too often I fear and falter. All I can pray is prayer of the desperate father “I do believe, but help me overcome my unbelief” (Mark 9:24)!<\/p>\n

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Incomplete then is going to be my personal theme for this year. What does it mean to live in the tension of being a work in progress? How do I partner with God as he works within me? And many more questions I am sure will rise out of this theme.<\/p>\n

Along with the internal spiritual direction of taking a yearlong look at Incomplete it stirs other parts of my person. What have I left undone? Why do I leave things undone? When I leave things undone is this a symptom of something greater? If \u00a0I am completely honest, I think my own unfinished projects have a deep spiritual and psychological impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night I came to the startling realization that it is the middle of January and 2014 is now well underway. The crazy thing is I have no idea what will happen this year. I am trying to think back and I can’t come up with a time when life felt this fluid. As I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13,43],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-years-resolutions","tag-incomplete","tag-oldies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profoundmystery.com\/onemansrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}