In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth, and when it was done, He looked around and said, "It is Good."
NOT, "It's Perfect!"
Yes, God is perfect. Yes, He creates perfect things. Am I wrong in thinking that maybe He let us help make this world? I let my kids help "make" their rooms, by choosing paint colors and bed sheets and what-not. Why? Well, because I want them to be happy in their rooms. I want them to feel loved. I want them to feel a sense of pride and ownership. So, I like to think that maybe my Heavenly Father wanted me to be happy in this world that I would live on, so He let me help. Or at least watch. I'm not sure what kind of help I would have been making mountains and things. So maybe I got to pick to colors of a sunset, or design that weird looking tree. Maybe, because Heavenly Father had so much "help" from so many of His children, this world was a little less then, well, perfect. But you know what? That's ok. God didn't need it to be perfect. We didn't need it to be perfect. We just needed it to be Good Enough. And you know what else? Our lives don't need to be perfect either. Our houses, our children, our dinner choices, none of that needs to be perfect either. I think I read a quote somewhere that said something like, "Perfection means completion. We will never be perfect until we have endured faithfully to the end." Wow. I don't have to have it all figured out in this life. I just have to keep on trying, and doing my best. And, at the end of the day, when I look around at the floor my kids tried to tidy up, and at the dishes my kids tried to do, I can let go of that perfectionism and say, "It IS Good!"