Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

by Shauna Niequist

I’ve been armed for as long as I can remember, a veritable bunker of books and meals and drinks and to-do lists—they looked like real life, but upon closer inspection they were my armor against it.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. —John Steinbeck

But these days I’m coming to see that perfect is safe, controlled, managed.

your family and your very self are included in the kingdom you wish to serve, and if they are not thriving, the whole of your ministry is not thriving.

every once in a while we have these experiences that slice our lives into before and after,