This Too Shall Pass

I wrote this a couple of months ago, but I never posted it because I didn’t think it was good enough. It was just okay, but I wanted it to be perfect. I spent days trying to make it better, but I just couldn’t do it, so I just gave up. Last week, I finished reading “Hidden Potential” by Adam Grant, and he wrote that your goal should be excellence, not perfection. It reminded me of a quote by Voltaire – “Perfect is the enemy of the good.”

If “good” is the best you can do, then that is good enough. Even the best hitters don’t hit a home run every time they step up to the plate.

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I’ve always loved this time of year. It’s football season, The State Fair of Texas is just around the corner, and it finally feels like I’m walking on a habitable planet instead of the surface of the sun. And now I have another reason to love this time of year – Facebook memories.

Whenever this time of year rolls around, Facebook reminds me about things that previously happened in early September. Audrey was born on August 27th, so most of my memories bring me back to 2019 when we were in the hospital after she was born.

Things are going so well for Audrey that I sometimes forget how bad things were after she was born. Last week I came across this video of Tom Hanks last week on the same day I received one of my Facebook memories.

Very timely because this is the memory that Facebook sent me.

And here we are today.

Tom was right. It passed. And there were many times that I thought it wouldn’t. There were days that I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel because I couldn’t even find the entrance to the tunnel. But she did make. It turns out that there was a light. Even after we got out of the hospital, life hasn’t always been easy with Audrey, but my life has been infinitely better with her. Audrey has taught me that an easy life isn’t necessarily a fulfilling one.

So I’m done asking God for an easy life. I’ll ask him for challenges and thank him for the gift of time.

“Time is your ally. Just hang on.”

That’s two life lessons in one post. No extra charge.