“When life is even more
imperfect than it is the rest of the time”. That’s what the title should read.
Because life is rarely ever perfect. I
can say with 95% certainty that whoever you are, your life this past week was
not “perfect.” Something went wrong. Something goes wrong. And something will
go wrong tomorrow.
The amazing part is not that
life goes wrong but that life goes on. People
have accidents which result in crushing changes in life. People who seemed
perfectly healthy are diagnosed with incurable illnesses. Wars erupt and families walking away from their
bombed out homes with only a backpack full of possessions. But life always goes, even after days full of
diabolical daily disasters. The car won’t start. The school calls and your daughter
is sick. Your boss is unreasonable and
your co-worker is lazy. Small stuff that just accumulates into one big feeling
of “when am I going to catch a break?!”
Life is not perfect. But life
goes on.
I read a story about a young
man who, in the moments after the Cubs World Series win, dove into the shallow
end of a hotel pool and came out a quadriplegic, which injury was followed two
days later by a stroke. The story was
written by the mother-in-law of this young man, and she describes the long and
difficult recovery; the sacrifices and disruptions that her daughter and
son-in-law had in their lives as they try to find a new way of living. The author ends with a focus on the blessings
the family found from friends, co-workers and strangers, and she quotes one of
those “old sayings”: “Life does not have
to be perfect to be wonderful.”
How is it that this family
finds life “wonderful”? I think that we are hard-wired by our Creator with the
ability to hear God say “Go to a new place I will show you” when we are living
in life’s imperfect moments. God’s “go”
calls us to find hope in the midst of life’s imperfect places. May God to give
you enough hope to carry you through your next imperfect day. Keep on going to the
place God wants to show you. (Genesis 12:1) Keep looking for signs of wonder in
life’s imperfect days until that day when life will be perfect.
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