Today I am celebrating my hundredth post! 🥳 My very first blog post ever, was over 10 years ago! To commemorate this personal achievement, I am pointing you back to where it all began, my very first post. I read it today and found a 10-year-old typo, that I corrected. Making this correction made me happy because I always want to keep learning and growing. I always want to do my best, but I realize that my best will not be perfection. Perfection is illusive. Perfection requires comparison and critique. One's idea of perfection may fall short of another's. So who's right? Whose idea is correct? Whose standard should we follow? In a spiritual sense, we should follow God's. I am immediately reminded of this verse:

Romans 3:23 New Living Translation

²³ For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

If God knows we aren't perfect and He doesn't require perfection from us, then why do we require it from ourselves? That is a question we must answer individually. Don't look inside too much, look to God. Ask Him to give you the answer and, trust me, He will. You might be surprised to find that your efforts to earn God's love or approval might be based on human standards that He never intended for you. If you want to know more about God, click the tab, "How to Walk in the Light."

Personally and creatively, I am learning to accept my imperfections. In the past the struggle with imperfection has caused me to give up. In the past, I have been afraid to do new things because I might not do them perfectly; and anything less than perfection is failure. Right? It definitely depends on who you ask. America's greatest inventor, Thomas Edison said,

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

Edison, T. "Edison Quotes." ThomasEdison.org

So, let's not allow the fear of imperfection to be a roadblock on the path God has for us! Let's keep trying! Let's keep moving forward!

Today I celebrate 100 times I wrote something, (and shared it) instead of giving up. I hope you enjoy this vintage post from Rhyme, Reason & Real Life, and I hope you are encouraged to keep trying.

Mechelle

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