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Encountering Peace mobile app where all the 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 chapter 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 of silent serenity centering on God at work completing you encountering the

patience and the forbearance of God Continue by responding to this passage from 1st Thessalonians chapter 5, and as I lead us,

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