Under Construction

Under construction in Mexico

When riding from the airport in Puerto Vallarta to the hotel district, one cannot help but notice that almost every building is in a various state of  construction. There is raw concrete, re bar, post and beam, empty window openings and general disrepair everywhere. Most of these buildings are being occupied or used for some purpose, but incomplete. One might think it is the poverty, or a bad economy, but what is really happening is that the rules are being abused to financial advantage. Apparently, you do not pay taxes on your building until it is complete. By the look of huge portions of the city, there must be little tax revenue.

Our lives are much like that. We are continually under construction. It seems that the lessons that have to be learned are never ending and just when you think you have it together, or life is sailing along just fine, there is an issue that comes under construction and you need an attitude adjustment, or maybe even a makeover. Most of us can put up a nice facade, but underneath there is a construction mess with drywall dust and missing light fixtures here and there. This places continual tension into our lives. When will we ever find the perfection we are longing for? Why is nothing ever just right? If there is no trouble in our lives right now, we just know it is around the corner. Peace, perfection, and tranquility are not for this life, even though there is a longing for it in each of our lives. The 'perfect moments' in our lives are fleeting, yet we keep trying to recreate them. I believe this is a longing for Heaven, that the Creator has put into each of us. We get little tastes of it every so often, just enough to give us encouragement and to make us want more.