Just Perfect.

I tend to be a perfectionist.  If you know me well, you're either nodding your head in agreement or laughing hysterically.  My house is not clean, my papers are unorganized, and I'm late to most everything, but in my mind - the way things play out, I like things just perfect.

Life doesn't always seem to follow this "perfect" plan; your child's handprints are smeared in the stepping stone you were making, or you walk around all day feeling gorgeous only to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you had mascara smeared under your eyes, and your husband verifies that - yes, it was like that all day. 

Things aren't always perfect.

But lately, I've been finding myself stopping at brief moments during my day and thinking "My life is perfect." 

On the way to our vacation destination this past week I had one of those "perfect" moments.  It came while I was leaning over my daughter helping her wash her hands at a rest area bathroom.  Her skin was perfectly soft, her curls perfectly messed up from the long ride in the car, and her smile perfectly contagious - and I was surrounding her.  It was absolutely perfect when her blue eyes smiled up at me as she caught my gaze in the mirror and she said "I love you, Mama" 

That was perfect. 

So I've been watching, I've been waiting.  And surprisingly "perfect" has been popping up all over.

 In the midst of a rough night sleep that includes lots of crying for "Mama!" and unintentional bedsharing with elbows and knees kicking and jabbing everywhere, there's a soft hand hold and a "Mama, I love you." 

When we're snuggled up on the couch my hubby, me, my daughter and our dog watching Barbie Pegasus (again), I am reminded "my life is perfect"

It may not always fit into the ideals of what "perfect" should be.

Everything the way I planned it, when I planned it, how I planned it. 

Instead, it is fitting perfectly into God's ideals.  Everything the way He planned it, when He planned it, how He planned it. 

And I think its working out rather nicely.

Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."