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Getting Perfect
I was sitting in this appointment after a long day. The person had plenty to say; the want to belong and be accepted. They can’t do a lot for me–on the surface. The description of the person sitting across the desk from me? Later in life, divorced, poor, dysfunctional and a little odd. The Holy Spirit clarified to me a message He’d been working on with me for several weeks as I looked across the desk. The understanding came something like this:
These are the moments in life that give you a chance to be “perfect” (and the kind of moment that God is watching ever so closely!). And the only thing that can perfect is “the perfect law of liberty”–the law of love. Please give me a moment to go one step deeper. We live our lives many times “reaching” for that next day, that next goal, that next something that is on our agenda. But, where we think we’re headed, is it more important than the very moment at hand? Being “perfect” isn’t linked to some physical achievement.
Being perfect is loving, right at the very moment when love is called for.
I sat straight up in my chair. Cleared my eyes, stirred my mind and fully engaged this person that could “do “nothing for me”. I let them know by how I treated them, asked them questions and “let them in” to my life. I let them know that they mattered to me, and they mattered to God. For just a moment, the atmosphere was perfected, and I was perfect….
A lesson learned: your measure of significance may be traced back to what you did with what others may call insignificant.
