Have you ever found yourself repeating a common statement, and wondered why? There are heaps around: All men are liars; you get what you give; what goes around comes around; every cloud has a silver lining ...

These statements, and many like them, are not true. They may feel true, you may want them to be true, but they aren't. They are made up by people to explain situations that have baffled or hurt them. If you take hold of them as truisms and begin to apply them to your life you will be rob...
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Just lately I have been struggling with a sense of feeling incomplete. Everything around me is unfinished - our house, the yard, my writing, and my study - the very room in which I work.

I laid my complaint before the Lord, and this is what He said:

For everything there is a season ... Ecclesiastes 3:1
Finishing is better than starting ... Ecclesiastes 7:8
So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed ... Genesis 2:1
It is finished! ... John 19:30

Thank you Lord ...
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