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There’s a piece that I’m working on. When I stepped back and looked at it as a whole, I could see there was a better way I might have done it. My first instinct was to throw it away and get a brand new piece to work on. This really aggravated me. I even went out and bought a new piece to work on. Something inside me told me that I really would feel like a failure if I threw out my original piece. That it wasn’t a big deal really, but now I’d made it a big deal by my own dwelling on it. I decided to work on my old piece. Of course I’m keeping the new piece I had bought and working on them both, but something tells me the piece I almost threw out is going to be so much more special than that perfectly set, automatically colorful new one I had bought to replace it. There’s something to be said about mistakes and pushing through them. I wondered then how many people in my life I had thrown out just like that, because we had started in a rocky, highly blemished way; or how many people had thrown me out because they too suffer a bit from this perfectionism plight. I hope to live my life now filled with blemishes, mistakes, and all sorts of pieces that don’t fit with my pieces, by finding a way of making them fit, at least for the parts that God seems to be forcing into my life time and time again no matter how hard I try to dodge them. I’m just a vessel God places here and there after all, towards the places he thinks I need to go, and there I go, trying not to let my sometimes emerging perfectionism get in my way, or even fighting to be sure someone else doesn’t throw me away based on these false perfectionistic beliefs. We are not perfect, we simply are; at a place and time something larger than us has brought us to. Who am I to dare say what’s perfect, I am not God, and I cannot see all, so I’ll just be, right here, where he’s brought me and be.
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