Perfection

"Do not expect to become perfect at once. If you do, you will be disappointed. Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.” From the Life of Lorenzo Snow

       Yesterday we had a lesson in relief society about what perfection really means, it isn't being the mom who does everything right, the wife who never fights with her husband or having 100% visiting teaching every month. Perfection is achieved through making mistakes. I have learned over the past year that perfection is something that comes from making the wrong choice, seeing how that choice affected the happiness of those around me, and my own happiness for that matter. The steps to perfection come through recognizing our own weaknesses and shortcomings and then overcoming them. You would thing the hard part would be over coming them, but it isn't. The hard part is recognizing them. It is hard to hear yourself say or think something terrible, and then accept that it was not the best choice of words. Life is imperfect, if we were expected to not make mistakes we would never have been sent here on earth. We are made perfect by doing the best we can, by going through trials that bring about change in ourselves, and only through the atonement can we be made perfect.