Be ye perfect

If any command places fear in the hearts of believers it is this one. It troubled me greatly for many years and kept me obsessing about my imperfections. Well, I discovered a few things about perfection.

It does not mean be without sin or problems or weaknesses. It means maturity.
It is a process not a state of being
It is a very encouraging and affirming concept.

I'll post some things that may take your load off when you start thinking about perfectionism.

If this year just 99.5% of perfection was reached

Two million documents will be lost by the IRS
811,000 faulty rolls of 35-mm film will be loaded
291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly
880,000 credit cards in circulation will have incorrect cardholder information
$9,690 will be spent every day in the future on defective unsafe sporting equipment
55 malfunctioning automatic teller machines will be installed
20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written
114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped
$761,900 will be spent on tapes and Cd's that won't play

22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour
1,314 phone calls will be misplaced by telecommunication services every minute
12 babies will be given to the wrong parents each day
268,500 defective tires will be shipped

14,208 defective personal computers will be shipped
103,260 incoming tax returns will be processed incorrectly
2,488,200 books will be shipped with the wrong cover
5,517,200 cases of soft drinks produced in the next 12 months will be flat
Two plane landings daily at Ohare International Airport in Chicago will be unsafe
3,056 copies of tomorrow's Wall Street Journal will be missing one of three sections.
18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled in the next hour.
107 incorrect medical procedures will be performed by the end of the day
315 entries in Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language will turn out to be misspelled.

So, cheer up and pray that you are not in the .5% that was defective, or you are not on the airplane that was stranded for 11 hours or even 7 hours or 6 or 5 or, well you get it.

Last year Galina, Steve, Yevgenia and I were stuck for two hours in a small, a very, very small elevator in Moscow on Saturday night. We could barely breathe and could hardly move. In Russia the defect rate is much higher than .5%. We did pray and were rescued after ONLY 2 hours.