Our best efforts

In the midst of our best intentions, our most sincere devotions, interruptions happen that are beyond our control and we have to respond. We can ignore them, we can try to put them off, but sometimes they just can't be set aside, we have to instead set everything else aside so that we can do what is before us. It is about prioritizing and doing our best to play with the hand that we are dealt in the best way we can for the best possible outcome. In the shuffle things get lost, appointments get missed or changed, thing have to be put in a holding pattern in a hierarchy of needs. We have to acknowledge that if we don't deal with one things we may not be able to deal with the other and that achieve that desired result there is an order to things. Then again that order is never quite as clear as we might want. It may be that even though one thing is more important, while we are waiting for it to happen we should try to take care of two other things. It all sounds confusing, but maybe that's part of the point. We use lots of metaphors. Juggling(sometimes we have too many balls up in the air), balancing, piling on a plate, eggs in a basket...you pick we all have a situation that fits that description, maybe even more than on simultaneously. We want to be perfect and do everything right, but sometimes we mess up. Devotion is about a different kind of perfection. It is about the perfection that comes from doing our best and trying to be our best even when it is hard or seems impossible. It is about doing our best even when no answer seems perfect, the perfection is found in the effort and intention. Perfection is the hope and the eventuality that comes when we persevere.