Present Over Perfect

thing he’s already created for you to be.
He doesn’t tell the snow to thaw and become rain, or the
rain to freeze itself into snow. He says, essentially: do your
thing. Do the thing that you love to do, that you’ve been
created to do.
So many of us twist ourselves up in knots trying
desperately to be something else, someone else, some
endless list of qualities and capabilities that we think will
make us loved or safe or happy. That’s an exhausting way
to live, and I know that because I’ve done it.
God tells the rain to just pour down. He tells the snow to
simply fall. What are the things that he’s asking you to do,
the things he made you to do, the things you do effortlessly
and easily?
What do you do with the ease and lightness of falling
snow? Many of us have wandered so far from those things.
We’ve gotten wrapped up in what someone else wanted us
to be, what we thought would keep us happy and safe and
gain us approval.
But there’s tremendous value in traveling back to our
essential selves, the loves and skills and passions that God
planted inside us long ago.
When I look at my life these days, I see the threads of
passion and identity that I’ve carried through my whole life:
books and reading, people and connection, food and the
table. These are the things I’ve always loved, and they
continue to bring me great joy and fulfillment.
Think about your adolescent self, your child self, the