You Are Perfect Right Now

Photo: My daughter with her daughter.

Perfection isn’t a static future state; it’s dynamic and in the present.

Imagine a fresh crisp apple, perfect in size, shape, color, and taste. Peel it, cut it up, bake it in a pie. When it comes from the oven, the apple is a different color, texture, and taste, but it’s still perfect; a new perfect. Its baked perfection doesn’t negate its raw perfection.

As a blossom, the would-be apple was perfect to those who admired its beauty and aroma, and to the bee who pollinated it. When hard and sour, it was perfect to the birds and worms. When soft and bruised beneath the tree, it will be perfect to the horse who couldn’t reach it on the branch. And when it’s rotting on the ground, it will be perfect to give life to a new tree.

The apple is always perfect, even as it’s becoming perfect. It’s not passing through steps of becoming perfect; it’s passing through states of being perfect.

Like the apple, you are perfect right now, as you are, in this moment. The only time you can be perfect is in the present. That’s the only time you can experience anything. 

A half-baked pie—with a doughy crust and crunchy apples—seems imperfect when compared to a fully-baked pie, but that’s because you’re comparing it to the wrong standard. As a half-baked pie, it’s perfect.

You are, like that pie, half-baked but still perfect.

Honor your divine nature. Fill the measure of your creation. Be exactly what you are in the present. Know the Universe brought you to this moment with everything you need. That’s perfection.

There will always be a new moment and a new perfection, but that doesn’t negate your present perfection in this moment.

You were never not perfect.