The above is a movie about what I see as patient endurance in the midst of a world of instant self-gratification (pride) I find it beautiful because of the patience and tangible nature of what is birthed physically and character wise from this type of work.
Tonight, I imagine words like many other nights will fail ;but I wanted to note two verses that are on my heart these days.And very much correlate with the above movie.
Ecc. 7:8 notes that:
The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.
Proverbs 28:2 notes that
By the transgression of a land many are its princes, But by a man of understanding and knowledge, so it endures.
As my father notes often and sums up the above verses : “ finish well.”
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This is our call as Christians to endure until the end and to be better than the day we began it. To grow and to flourish in a world of challenge to the Christian life, to not be children any longer but warriors carrying forth God's light into the work being tempered by patient endurance and development although its hard work and comes with great struggle and difficulty.
Thank God for people that still do things the old fashioned way who have bent fingers because there is something about doing something with your two hands that takes a long time that cannot be duplicated and is immensely satisfying.
-John Grinstead
