Fall has made its presence known, most notably by the carpet of leaves on our lawn. Hours spent raking, raking, raking, trying to catch as many leaves as possible before they dance their way on the wind to the neighbors’ yards.
Sometimes I welcome these times of necessary physical labor. It’s a good thing to be out in the fresh, crisp, cool air, working muscles that haven’t worked this way in a while, hearing the scraping of the rake and crunching of the leaves.
As I was raking, I thought about how I was living out a valuable lesson:
Perfection in life may not be possible at the first pass.
I’m not talking about studying really hard and getting a perfect score on an important test, a required certification, or the bar exam. I’m talking about life, where we are putting into practice all the things that we were supposed to be prepared for by school.
Raking all the leaves in a single session would only be possible if we waited for every single leaf from every single tree on our property and in our vicinity to fall. Only then would we be able to rake every single leaf at one time. So we do the next best thing: we rake in stages.
I could have ended this raking process in one of three ways.
I could have:
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