China, linen napkins, holiday dinnerware, special candles, that perfect black dress, the earrings your grandmother gave you.
Are there things in your life that you keep hidden, tucked away, only to be seen on the “special days” that are just a little more special than all the others?
Recently as I was cleaning the house I noticed all around me pictures and decorations that I have not yet hung on the walls. We have lived here three years. I know very well why I had not hung them yet.
I was waiting. Waiting for that “special day” when my house would be perfect with colored walls in each room. Then I could make it home. After the paint settled.
As I looked at these things that I love and that bring so much joy when I look at them, I realized how often I wait and wait and wait for perfection and in the meantime miss out on the enjoyment of what I have today.
The problem is that perfection will not come in this life. And as I anticipate it showing up at any time, what is here now becomes waste.
My walls are still bare with the same dull white color that they were when we moved in, but yesterday became a special day. I stopped waiting, took out the beautiful things around me, and made those bare walls perfect with my blessings.
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