The rough-draft mentality, however, helps me expect changes and accommodate them. Eliminate self-imposed deadlines. So much of what I thought had to be done by a certain time, didn't. Life imposes enough of its own deadlines without our conjuring more. Go for a brisk walk, exercise, grab a joke book, or make faces in the mirror.
Laughter does wonders to restore sanity.
Moving from perfectionism into God's perfection is not easy and may never end. I'm not the one in charge. In the meantime, I've decided to hand over my seam ripper to the One who works through imperfect people and imperfect circumstances to bring about God's perfect will - because God's love is perfect. And that's all we really need. Copyright 1994, Virtue Magazine.