By Lois Hewitt

Circling the dining room table,
I thought what do I want.
A cup of tea would be grand.
If only a pastry was at hand,
alas none were found.

Perhaps a tea and a comfy chair would fit the bill.
No chair met the need, one too lumpy and one too short.

Tea and a good book are constant companions.
Which book to read?
A mystery? No. A romance? No. Not one filled the need in my soul.

One last attempt. Tea and a song. 
What music to listen to? Nothing too hard or too soft. I can’t tolerate voices today, maybe just silence is what I need.

I circled the table again looking for that thing that was just perfect.
But like me, perfection is not attainable.

Failures, shortcomings and empty spaces surround me all day.  Things I did and did not do.  Hang over me like a storm cloud.

I look for perfection in the world around me. There are glimpses of perfection that is to come but as of today, not all that much is perfect.

What am I to do with my lostness?  My emptiness?  My sadness?

Perhaps a change of lens, to see things anew.
With gratitude for what is with that being enough.

I circled the table one last time with a hot cup of tea in a chipped mug, accompanied with a crumb of bread, as I headed to the lumpy chair to read about a new adventure as I welcomed the silence around me.

New eyes saw this as perfection. 
If you wait for all things to be perfect, you miss the gifts God has for you. 

Perfection is not for this world but for the world to come as we live with Jesus forever.

Enjoy His gifts today. The beauty is in the magnificent expression of gratitude.  No other emotion makes the commonplace turn spectacular. Be thankful today, it will change your world.

(A poet I am not.  Barely a writer I be. Just wanted a fun way to tell a tale. Another way to thank Jesus!)