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What a great reminder…. I walked out to let the dogs out and this spoke so deeply to me. Yes I suffer struggling with “perfection” in so many ways… like the placement of the decorations on my tree. That yes, I can and did control. Now God blessed me with the tree, the ornaments, the skirt… everything. What I chose to do with them was on me, He gave me the gift to decorate.

Then I saw my “bowl” of roses…. I was so excited when I picked them out. How the color would “pop” near the tree. I had no control in what happened to them… the petals started falling off the minute they came out of the wrapper.. I couldn’t control it. Now… I could have thrown them in the trash…been angry, mad, disappointed but I then remembered this beautiful silver bowl that a lady gave to me when I was at a yard sale with Margaret. It was sitting there on the “free” container.

No, I have not taken the time to polish it. Yet I was able to see the beauty that lies beneath the darkness of its exterior. Adding the flowers just brought it to life…

We put so many expectations on ourselves that do not need to be there.. there are some things we need to handle, take care of but most things we need to let go of and let Our Heavenly Father work it out… finding the beauty in the disappointments and learning from them… this is the season I am walking in right now and I am trying to find grace in the imperfections… trying to let go of the what I thought should have been and embracing what is handed to me and learning from it.

One thing is true… God is good and His ways are always better than ours…

Be blessed my friends💗