Perfection

I heard something interesting over the weekend. "Perfection is doing what something was designed for." Consider a tooth brush and toilet paper. Tooth brushes are designed to clean teeth, and toilet paper is designed primarily for cleaning the little bits we often don't like to speak of. They both do their job quite well. Most tooth brushes do a decent job of cleaning your teeth and toilet paper... well does a good job at cleaning you too, if the proper techniques are applied. Now if you have them switch places, a tooth brush just isn't designed to clean the unmentionables and toilet paper isn't going to stand up to the abuse of cleaning teeth. You could say that a tooth brush used to brush teeth is "perfect" and accordingly toilet paper used for it's intended purpose seems quite "perfect".

Are you doing what you have been designed for? How often are we slogging through life doing something other than what you have been created for? Is it time to take an inventory of your life to see what is essential and what is optional, what can you ax and what must you keep? As for me, I know there are a lot of things that I should probably let go of that I haven't been able to yet, but I do know that I am a family man and that is a must keep and working to cut off the dead or dying "imperfect" branches.

How about your path to "perfection"?