How many closed chapters do you have in your life? Maybe it was a job, a summer program, school, or a season with a sports team. We all have a lot of them, that’s for sure. I don’t know about you, but sometimes I experience sadness when I think about the closed chapters in my life.

We have another layer of closed chapters in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. So many chapters were closed without people even having time to prepare for them to close. 

I have a lot of closed chapters. I absolutely love where I am now. But sometimes it makes me sad that I can’t do it all, or that some chapters of my life are over and I’ll never experience them again to the same extent that I did when I was in them.

How can we find comfort during these situations? Here are my suggestions:

1. Recognize that God has you right where he wants you
   
2. Recognize that God is sovereign over all things, even your mistakes
   
3. Recognize that your calling is the path right in front of you
   
4. Recognize that all of your experiences are what make you you, and God prepared you every step of the way.

God is the great weaver, and he's weaving the threads of our lives into a perfect tapestry. 

There will be a lot of closed chapters. C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters writes, “He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity or with the Present--either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure.”

God cares about our sorrows. He cares about every part of us. Let’s stay the course. Let’s do the next right thing. And let’s keep our minds fixed on Jesus.

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The books I mentioned in today's episode: Ravi Zacharias, The Grand Weaver and C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

Intro/Outro Music:
Almost Bliss by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5032-almost-bliss
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/