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Jesus's father, while his earthly father, was a carpenter, a builder, a worker of wood

and stone, a true craftsman.

He had the instinct and the vision to know how to build and the patience to see the project

through.

As a good Jewish father, he would have started early teaching his son the family craft.

Jesus would have learned early what it meant to start a project and then be patient to

carry it on until it's completed.

Is there some part of you that feels like an unfinished work?

Have you been impatiently suffering for a while, longing for the need of completed restoration?

Well this meditation from Philippians 1 will help you find a space to encounter the assurance

and patient working of God as you face the question of whether you can ever be restored

and complete again.

So to begin your meditation, find a place to be comfortable, alone, quiet and still.

We will be together in this divine retreat for about 15 minutes.

For now, allow your breathing to settle and your eyes to patiently move from open into

a soft gaze and then completely closed.

Just settle deeper into this place as you start to notice yourself slowing down into a moment

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