Perfection. What defines Perfection?

Can our ordinary moments in life be perfect?

Hi, I’m Sam! Welcome to Soft. Simple. Still. where, like gentle butterflies that land softly upon your hand, words will land softly in your heart for healing, for stillness, for simplicity. Feel free to join me in creating a Soft. Simple. Still world.

One drop
Lands upon the window pane
and trickles down the wall
it falls upon the leaves, the trees,
and slides upon the floor

One drop lands
upon the spiders web
and glistens in the light
it merges with other droplets
and creates a magic light

One drop
lands upon the petals bright
and hides among the leaves
it lands upon the ice and snow
and dances in the breeze

one drop

drop

drop

A Spiderweb
St Maryborne, Andover, England 2023

Dearest one,

How are you today?

I just have just completed and sent out my Companion Guide. Do you remember my 21 day meditation workshop - MAGIC MOMENTS? Well, part of the offering for those that chose the Sunshine Package was a Companion Guide. Imagine a Workbook with more delicious meditations, more things to ponder and more seeds to cultivate within your inner landscape…It sounds delicious doesn’t it?!

Ohh! I do love writing Companion Guides! I made that name up and prefer using it to “A Workbook.”

A Workbook requires WORK.

When I write the word Companion Guide I imagine and envision someone walking with me - being both my Companion and my Guide. My image of a companion is one that goes on adventures with me. Someone who can sit in silence with me. Someone who can ask me deeper questions. Someone who can hear the answers to those questions and can hold those answers deeply within their heart. Someone who is caring and loving, fun and playful, compassionate and supportive.

My greater aim for this Companion Guide is to make you feel that I am there with you, as a companion and as a guide, gently encouraging you in your hearts journey towards stillness, peace and self love.

While I am so happy with this Companion Guide, to be honest I am very nervous too. Do you have moments like that when you have completed something you are proud of, and even though you have sent it out to the wider world, you still feel nervous and anxious and a bit jittery about it.

Did I edited it properly?
Did I present it well enough?
Did I balance enough information with too much information?
Did I dot the “i’s” and cross the “t’s.”

and
well…

IS IT PERFECT?

PERFECTION.

What actually does that word mean -
To achieve perfection
To dream perfection
To be perfect
What does that look like and feel like?

PERFECTION.

To achieve 100%.
To win the race.
To be the best in the world.

PERFECTION.

What is perfect for one person
may be imperfect for another.
What is perfect for one person
may be a work in progress for another.

PERFECTION.

I am a Mumma. When I held and saw my children for the very first time, I saw and smelt and held PERFECTION. Those tiny feet. Those tiny hands. Those tiny lips. Those tiny little breaths -
in
and out.

PERFECTION.

That still is perfection. Even though my little ones are now big ones, perfection is still seen in them. In their smile. In their caring loving nature. In the way they snuggle up close. In the way we can just sit and read and share together.

Life stops
in that Perfect Bubble.

Since then, nothing I do comes close to that level of Perfection.

And yet I still strive for it.

Since then, while I strive to do the best I can,
achieving TRUE PERFECTION seems
either so very very far away
or just not on the radar to consider.

I do my very best.
I excel in some things.
I am average in other things.

Do I need to be perfect though?

Is it achievable
Or is it just an illusion?

PERFECTION

And yet, when I look around me

PERFECTION is THERE

JUST THERE
So tangibly just there in front of me.

Perfection is in the dew of the spider web.
Perfection is in the chirping and chattering of new born chicks.
Perfection is in the tiny seedling that reaches for the sun.

Perfection is in the colours of dawn
and the colours of dusk.

Perfection is in the flash of lightning
and the colours of a rainbow,
Perfection is the warmth of an animal
and the trust of a babe.

Perfection is a delicious meal
after a long
LONG day
and the warmth of a fire
on a cold
COLD night.

Perfection is in the tears I shed
when my body is grieving.
Perfection is in the dance I dance
when my emotions are tangled.
Perfection is in the silence of my soul
when I have deeply breathed out.

PERFECTION.

In a world where human actions initiate war and pain,
prejudice and cruelty,
I wonder, can we pause in our day to day life
to find some perfect moments,
some simple moments of UNADULTERATED PERFECTION?

What does perfection mean to you?
Why do you strive to perfect things?
Why do you feel you can only show up in your perfect form?

Why do you sabotage your gifts and offer “less than” what you can really do/offer?

Who can you trust to hold your imperfections? What makes this person able to do this?

What simple moments in your ordinary day can you call PERFECT?

I would love to read what being Perfect means to you. To do that, you can simply leave a comment below, or some of you may like to download the Substack app for another way to interact with me.

Until we meet again,

Blessed be.

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