A Lesson Learned: by Robin Thomas
Fitted sheets are the bane of my existence.
I have watched videos on how to fold them. I have had people try to show me, but I just cannot make those lovely sheet corners with a fitted sheet. It’s fine and dandy when someone is there helping me fold it, but on my own I’m a disaster. Why? I am of relatively high intelligence and am vastly capable in other areas, what is the deal? Remember that scene in the Breakfast Club where the Nerdy guy talks about his shop class and how he can’t make the light turn on? Yep, that’s me with fitted sheets. Ultimately I think it comes down to the fact that I just don’t care. I have other things that I would rather put my time into, therefore I speed through the necessities to get to the good stuff.
The bottom line is we do, or make time for, the things that we want to do. Lord knows that “perfectly folded fitted sheets” is not on my top ten. In fact, I’m not even sure it would make the top 100. I know, Marie Condo is having heart palpitations right now, but I am fairly certain that the sheets will still fit on the bed the same way, give or take a wrinkle or two. Now, don’t hear me wrong, if perfect order is your thing then I mean no disrespect, it’s just not mine.
You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.~Ralph Marston
In First Corinthians 12, the Apostle Paul talks about how we are one body with a lot of different parts. If you are a hand, be a hand; if you are a foot be a foot. Don’t compare yourselves to others but do YOUR THING well. A hand can’t do what a foot does, so don’t expect it to.
You are valuable just the way you are.
What’s important is that your priority is on the right thing. God wants us to be our best selves, but don’t exhaust yourself over things that will not last.
What will last? People, by the grace of God. Put your time and energy into your family, your friends and neighbors. If fitted sheets are your thing then have a “fitted sheet folding party”(please, don’t invite me), if baking is your thing then share it with some neighbors. If staying at home is your thing, then call, don’t text, someone on the phone (you know that thing that connects to another human being on the other end?) and tell them you were thinking of them.
Augustine said, “This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
Know what you are good at and what you are not and proceed accordingly. We do not all have to be good at everything. That’s waaaaaaaaaay too much pressure.
I was listening to the radio while running errands a couple of days ago and I heard this song, Worldwide Beautiful by Kane Brown. It’s a slightly different take from what I’ve been talking about, but still gets the message across that we all work better when we work together as one body. https://youtu.be/4oI8haxRuPo
My fitted sheets might not be folded correctly but I have my razor sharp wit, right?
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