“When the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be cancelled.” 1 Corinthians 13:10 from The Message

All my incompletes cancelled, what a day that will be. As I continue to walk brokenly in relationships . . . . Relationships with God, with myself, with team mates and co-workers and family and friends . . . . I long for the day when all my incompletes will be cancelled, when the Complete arrives.

Right now I feel very fully what the Message says, that we “don’t see things clearly, we’re squinting through a fog, peering through a mist.” I can see some of the issues (my own and others), I can begin to see some wrongs that need righting, some that need forgiving, some ways I have agreed with the Enemy and hurt those I love. But I long for the day when, ” the weather clears and the sun shines bright!” When I can love others well, perfectly even, because He has perfected me. And when I can be truly known without danger, without regret, without such fear or loss or disappointments.

But until then, we do three things, “trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly.” God help me: I am trusting, I do hope, but my love fails greatly in it’s extravagance when I fear. “Complete”, won’t you arrive? If it’s not your time to arrive in this world, then arrive in my heart in new and needed ways. Come, Complete One with your extravagant love and help me in all my incompleteness to be just enough for what and who you call me to live with . . . . and to love.

“Go after love as if your life depends on it, because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives to you.” 1 Cor. 14:1 What would that look like right now for you, and for me???