In my last blog, I asked you to pray for Peter. He has Myasthenia Gravis and has been suffering with a cold. I’ve just learned he has tested positive for COVID. Now he REALLY needs our prayers! Please keep Peter on your prayer list.
Recently I’ve been doing some of my preliminary chores in preparing for Christmas. I’ve made a goal for myself to always get our annual Christmas letter out the day after Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving will be here before we know it. I’ve learned that if I don’t get it out early, I stress until it’s done. I’m much better off getting it done early and then I no longer have to worry about it.
There’s a lot of things like that in life. I used to procrastinate about a lot of things, especially things I dreaded doing. For example, if I had to make a phone call I was dreading, I found I was much better off if I made that phone call first thing that day. Doing so, I no longer had to worry about it. The added plus is usually the things I’m dreading to do don’t turn out as difficult as I had imagined, so I save myself a lot of fretting by just getting it done early.
Our family Christmas letter falls into that category. It’s not that I dread doing it; it’s just that I tend to fret about it until it’s done. I’ve learned the earlier I do it, the less I have to worry about it. The other thing I do is I tend to rewrite things a hundred times before I release it because it’s not “perfect”. Like I’ve learned from my blogs, I want them to be grammatically correct and carry the proper punctuation, but they don’t have to be “perfect”. If my words convey the message, then I don’t need to obsess about anything else. So, in terms of our family Christmas letter, the quicker I send it out, the quicker I can quit rewriting it. “Perfect” is no longer my goal; I’m shooting for meaningful.
That reminds me of a Christmas joke:
A little boy and girl are singing Christmas Carols at their church. The little boy is singing louder than everyone else, but he’s completely off-key.
Afterward, the little girl turns to him and says, “You know you can’t sing, right?”
The little boy looks at her proudly and replies, ” Maybe not, but did you see how much I meant it?”
That’s how I like to think of my blogs. I may not have the best voice and I may sing off-key, but you’ve gotta give me credit for meaning it!
I hear from a lot of people with Myasthenia Gravis. Many of them tell me how much they enjoy my blogs and can relate to what I say in them. That makes it worth it for me. I don’t have tens of thousands of followers, but I’m helping some. That’s all that matters. Even if I was only helping one person, it would be worth it.
Hmmmmm. As I was typing that last sentence, I realized I know for certain my blogs are helping at least one person: me! My blogs let me share with you and that brings me joy inside.
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Sometimes it doesn’t matter if you sing off-key, as long as you really, really mean it!