Take a quiet walk through your neighborhood or a nearby park. Let the gentle wind and rustle of the leaves quiet your heart. Then take some time to ponder this question, “Do I strive for perfection in my life?”
Perhaps you don’t strive for perfection all the time, but are there some areas of your life where you feel that you are not quite good enough? Where you just don’t measure up to what you “should” be? Does it seem that someone keeps moving the mark on the measuring stick a few notches higher? (Now, who could that be?)
Striving for perfection is an impossible quest. Perfection is a myth and forever out of reach. Aim for excellence, instead. Excellence has nothing to do with outward appearances or with what you accomplish or with what you possess. Excellence depends solely on being the best that “you” can be, and doesn’t focus on your flaws.
So throw away the measuring stick that marks success and quality of life by the world’s standards and choose “simplicity of heart” instead.
Let all that is excellent in you be drawn out. Allow yourself to be shaped with faithfulness, honor and integrity. Be ready to radiate from the inside out. Outward change will be perceptible but subtle – a glow to the skin, a sparkle in the eyes, a tilt to the head, a lilt to the walk – but you know the inward change makes the difference.
(生活多樣，驚喜偶有，常存感恩，永保歡喜，生命絕對待您不薄)
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