Perfect moments in time!

Each of us lives life one day at a time, but too often we don't truly realize we have perfect moments within a day. A perfect moment means we must "live" in the moment instead of allowing our minds to wander into thoughts that reflect our hopes, frustrations, guilt, and even worry.

The Lord has asked us to "become perfect," even as our Father in Heaven is perfect. It may seem like an impossible assignment until we realize we can break the task down into smaller components. When teaching or training children with neurological impairments, we call the process "task management breakdown."

Instead of struggling to find the measurement of perfection of ourselves within our lives, we can try to find moments where God has made life perfect for us! We can "know" the gift is just for us and we recognize it, give praise for it and joy in it?

After exercising these perfect moments frequently in my life, I know relishing them evidences to God that I am one with Him. It offers me such joy and I believe it gives my Father in Heaven joy as well.

Perfect swim moments 

Several times each summer (or in tropical locations in winter) I've found perfect swim moments.

I am blessed to be able to become "one" with a natural water environment (lake, river, ocean). My body enjoys innate boyancy, and accordingly I don't have to struggle to stay afloat. That means I am given the chance to caress the water and be caressed by the water with every portion of my body- arms, legs, hands, feet, back, neck, even my scalp. I can relax to feel it's influence to lift or hold me or to pleasure me.

Each water experience is unique. The movement of the water diversifies my experience.

Waves can bring excitement and play.

Quickly moving streams allow for giving control to the elements- a tendency that often provokes fear in others.

Still, quiet water calls out for a ballet experience of leg lifts, rolls, circles, then my stillness as the water continues to move after I've ceased motion.

My perfect water moments have taken place in tropical locations, in glacier lakes, in fishing streams, but only rarely in quiet swimming pools. I've found joy in water 6 weeks before delivering a baby or by slipping out of a kayak with my clothes on because I couldn't be separated from the wocean waves for another moment. One afternoon, I even had to take a water break from a family picnic to climb into a mountain lake in full blue jean and t-shirt attire. Despite the wet ride home afterward, the water renewed me at the end of a long parenting day.

I have a photo of one of my perfect moments. I've been preserved forever hugging my legs (knees up to my chest), sitting on a Maui beach, facing ocean waves, feeling the entire combination of power of wind and water, sight and sound - alone... alone with my Father in Heaven. I recall thanking Him for that perfect moment. While it lasted more than a moment, it may have been that I was blessed to feel the perfect sequence of time for five or ten minutes - until the photographer called out to me and distracted me from the event. But it was enough. Having the photo to remind me makes me live that moment over and over again.

God's creations and his water environment have given me many, many perfect moments.

If you haven't had a perfect moment recently, ask the Creator to help you to silence your life, your body and your mind sufficiently to invite Him to lead you into His perfection. It may become a pathway for you, as it has been for me to understanding that becoming perfect, to be like Him, can begin for you with treasuring the same things he treasures - his creations.

Perfect moments will change your life.
Each will lead you to the "feeling" of perfection!

Each will introduce the longing for more perfection and the desire to return to His perfect association.