By Betsy Gonwa, 
Unfinished seems to be a theme. I don’t even know how many times I have started to write a blog and it has remained just that, a started blog. Sometimes I have something to say and other times I have nothing to say. And sometimes I start to say what I want to say and sometimes it remains within me, unwritten.
Thinking about all that is unfinished can be daunting, if I let it be. Focusing on what I have finished can help, like taking a moment to admire the newly-made curtains that are hanging in my bathroom. Or, like pausing to relish a weed-free flower bed before I walk away to empty the weed bucket.
Perhaps I have given the state of being finished too much status, and too much power. Perhaps what was started at a moment in the past will materialize into a finished product, and perhaps not. Who am I to say?
It is a beautiful July day and the grandchildren are off to an amusement park with their mom and dad and grandpa, and it is a quiet day at home for me. Perhaps I will finish one of those unfinished blogs. But what is alive in me right now is something completely different. Like the excitement in my grandchildren as they climb into carseats and buckles are snapped is different from the waffling emotions of timidity and bravery exhibited by my 2-year-old granddaughter piloting her balance bike to the park, or the sleepy energy around the breakfast table a few hours prior.
These images of my grandchildren in the moments that have passed this morning remind me that, like them, each of us is unfinished. Each of them is at a delightful stage, their life journeys just begun, on their way to becoming. Perhaps – it could be — unfinished is just fine!
This image of unfinished is uplifting to me. And as I sit in the quiet of my office, pen in hand, I allow what is alive in me in this moment to be expressed. Perhaps by preoccupying myself with the unfinished, I am robbing myself of the opportunity to be in the flow. So, today, I will allow myself to enjoy the beautiful state of being unfinished.
What about you?
