Unfinished on Purpose

Some of the most beautiful things I’ve seen weren’t finished.
A song missing its last verse.
A painting still waiting to come to life.
A story paused mid-chapter.

I’ve learned that God often works that way.
He leaves parts of our lives open,
not because He’s forgotten,
but because time still has work to do.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been frustrated.
Things didn’t move as fast as I wanted.
So often, I thought I was ready.
But looking back, I wasn’t.

Sometimes the pause was protection.
If He finished it then,
I might have crumbled under the weight
that I wasn’t ready to carry.

Sometimes it was preparation.
The lesson wasn’t in the result. It was in the becoming.
He was shaping something in me that I would rely on down the road.

Sometimes it was alignment.
Pieces I couldn’t see were still moving.
People I hadn’t met yet were being placed in the story.

And sometimes it was mercy.
If He closed every chapter too soon,
I’d never learn to trust Him in the middle.

We crave closure.
We want to see how the story ends.
But faith lives in the unfinished.
It’s the space between what I can see and what I still believe.

So when I look at the unfinished parts of my life,
I try to see them differently now.
Not as failures or forgotten dreams,
but as living spaces where faith still grows.

Because if it’s unfinished,
then God’s not done.

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