In Winter 2018, I was moving in a new beautifully renovated downtown apartment. This
apartment was a high rise-more like northern looking apartments, so I thought they were pretty fancy. I’m sure you northern and west coast readers are saying to yourself- “nothing is fancy about that.” Well, it was to me, because I’m from the south, and we usually build out and not up. Not too long after I moved in I noticed a new builder’s construction sign next to my building and it read “Coming Soon Fall 2019.” You guessed it! They were now under construction just 15 feet away.
Question: are you under construction? Do you have up a “coming soon” in this season to
accomplish something? After secretly tracking the progress of the building next door, it’s to my understanding that assembling something is not always convenient or on schedule. Such as life.Looking out my window I sometimes noticed that the builders could not work due to the rainy weather, but still managed to keep building upon their return. Sometimes I would see them working at night to make up for the time they maybe lost during the daylight. Either way they kept building…
Believe it or not we all go under construction in some point of our lives. For an engaged couple your under construction maybe arranging for your big day, for a mother to be your under construction surely is the 9 months of pregnancy, you newly retiree the under construction just might be the reinvention of yourself and oh for the entrepreneur I guarantee you are always under construction with all the planning, misconceptions and lessons that take place in your life. Either we are all under some form of construction if we’re constantly evolving.
Billy Graham once said “Every human being is under construction from conception to death.”My friend, being under construction is a good thing-it makes us look forward to something. No,you don’t see the big picture yet and yes it’s sometimes an inconvenience when you have to say no to somethings and say yes to your “building”, but seeing through what you started is worth it. When others don’t understand your “building” and the excitement behind it, it’s ok-it’s not always for them to understand. Just like the building next to me finishes are intact…yours would be too. Stay the course.
LSM
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