“Writing and photographing is not about copying reality and reproducing it perfectly. It’s about showing it to others as you see it yourself.”
― Katja Michael
This has been an interesting week. Well, all weeks are full with interest, but this one stands out as a marked transition point between the long cool winter and the inescapable advent of summer.
I have played golf – twice, attended worship, taught the men’s Bible study, watched the gardens begin to bloom, listened to Rebekah’s remarkable messages, written – and shared – a good amount of content for my new book, and traveled to Wake Forest to make sure everything is in order there.
The golf was fun, my play less than stellar. But I was out there with such great people and I am deeply grateful for every opportunity. I have long held this theory that if I played more often then my score would improve; reality, however, seems to be insisting otherwise!
Life is a Pilgrimage!
All of this raises the question – regardless of whatever it is that I am doing – of process versus results. There is no playing golf “correctly” so much as getting the best out of the experience. Which I do. Likewise I am not writing a Pulitzer Prize winning memoir but simply telling my story.
I am a pilgrim, and I am making progress. Every day I wake up in the morning and I engage the goodness of life, and I continue on this journey. I love this process of doing life. Doing life alongside Rebekah; doing life in community – both my church and this town; doing life with Jesus.
Not doing life perfectly but faithfully; enjoying the experience and always doing my best because – even though Jesus instructed us not to worry – there is a difference between relaxed and complacent, between un-pressured and indifferent.
Jesus calls us not only into abundance but excellence too. Offering our best; but not so much my golf score or my sales numbers or my guitar playing as excellence in love, and grace, and encouragement, and joy, and service, and goodness.
Enjoy this “Photo Friday” and have a most excellent day, being faithful along the way – DEREK
