Perfection Defined

Last week I was hoping for good news... as pretty much everyone is at any one point in a week... and you know what happened? What always happens. I got good news... and bad news. Of course, not the news I wanted, but I was so strung out on the one call that I didn't notice anything else. Now it would have been a life-changing call, and the reason I was so hung up on it was because I thought the opportunity would be perfect.

Most perfect shot I have of a Cardinal.

Now that is an interesting concept. Something I wrote a Haiku about before. I have gone through many jobs, people and things that I thought was 'perfect' in the human sense of the word, but when it falls though I do what most people do nitpick and find all the cracks like we need some sort of closure or a reason to move forward... or backwards. However, that doesn't address the main 'issue.' Sometimes things fall through simply because. Because what? No, just simply because. 

If you are house shopping and you find the 'perfect' house but then someone out bids you or something and you lose the house that doesn't mean it wasn't perfect. Now isn't the time to nitpick. Spend that time to find something better.

This got me thinking about our view of perfect vs. God's view of perfect. Our view is very in-context and relative. Usually the good simply outweighs the bad by a vast margin in our current situation. For God there is no context. This is why things don't workout. We are screaming it perfect and God is like, 'Yes, you are right, but you can't see the future and I can. I have something better.'

The interesting thing about this job that I didn't get was that I didn't find out it was a great fit until after I gave the worst interview ever. Due to the situation I interviewed blind. No idea about anything really. Had it been any other way I would have been working there right now. Doesn't mean it was a 'perfect' opportunity, just that there is something better in store.