Intermittent Perfection
If you enjoy this or it resonates with you, consider supporting me by sharing it and becoming a paid subscriber for only $6/mo. Thank you and enjoy.
Three weeks ago, Cassandra and I, along with our newborn son, went to Málaga, Spain for a long weekend to celebrate being married for ten years.
This picture of Cassandra, taken just a few hours before our flight home, was a perfect moment. I don’t believe that life could have felt any sweeter than it did that evening to sit in a warm, historic street and enjoy delicious, authentic Spanish cuisine with such a beautiful woman. For just a moment life felt so good.
But overall our trip to Spain wasn’t that great. As a couple we are working through some things that are challenging and those things didn’t magically melt away because we went to Málaga.
My life is one of intermittent perfection.
I’m learning that the trick is not allowing what’s happened prior or could yet happen to ruin the perfect present moments in my life.
That evening in Spain I could have forgone the perfect moment by remembering the vexing disagreement we had the previous night, or that we were returning home to our four other children and daily routine.
Instead I chose to lay aside all of that and enjoy a perfect moment with the woman I chose to marry and choose to love.
I wonder how many other perfect moments I could have had so far had I been more aware and more willing to lay aside the past and future and proactively enjoy the present moment.
I don’t believe being present will make every moment perfect, but I do think it will increase the frequency of occurrence.
