CLOSE ENOUGH

For years now, when someone asks how I am, I automatically say, "Close enough."

I never particularly realized that until a pridefully positive person I was working with gave me a lecture on how negative that was...that I needed to catch his positive attitude. "The glass is always half full" was his mantra. (He was not overly happy when I told him mine was always full, but I that's another story.)

I got the "close enough" from a country song where the guy sings about his darlin' being always late, a  tish lazy, bad driver, rotten cook, but "She's close enough to perfect for me."

I remember the first time I heard that, I thought that that's the way I could choose to view anybody and everybody, including me, when I'm all set to judge them for not living up to my high standards for them.

That's how and where I get most of my spiritual growth, in fact. Not from reading the Bible (because without an interpreter it still doesn't make a lick of sense to me), not from thinking pure and lovely thoughts...but from country songs, Dear Abby-type advice columns, a victim of a disaster being interviewed on TV who is concerned for his neighbor, from hearing friends in my fellowship share their stories. It comes to me, I don't have to sit for hours trying to ponder original thoughts...for that's a sure sign of stuck in ego when (not if) I do!

God is so good to me...all my thinking's been done for me. Hey, all my thinking is being done for me!

Thank You.