c'est fini (it is finished)

It is a great feeling to check something off your to-do list. No matter how small or large the thing is, there is something freeing when you can check it off. You are done. You can move on to whatever is next or maybe even rest a bit before resuming your work towards whatever goal you have set for yourself. Just as much as it is good to check things off, it is good to have things on that list. To have goals and things you hope to accomplish is a driving and inspiring thing if you let it be. It can also be something oppressive if you let it be that as well. It is partly about accomplishment and achievement, but it should never fully be about those things, it needs to also just be what is or it can take you over. A great question to ask each day is not just what do I want or need to do today, but "what can I finish today?" It is hard to understand sometimes when they give our finishers medals at a race and what you really wanted was to win. Once you finish something big though you begin to realize that finishing is more of an accomplishment than we sometimes let on and by golly it should be recognized. Jesus last words were, "it is finished" and we can never underestimate what power those words can have for us as we finish what is before us.