For many years, I tried to set up schedules and plans for myself and my children that would achieve my many goals and make us all mostly perfect. (Psst, Those never worked.) Then I read a poem that completely convicted me. And I stopped creating elaborate plans and long lists of rules. Now I try to do the best I can, one day at a time, one or two goals at a time, and remembering to ask for God’s Grace every day.
“They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be.”
T.S. Eliot, The Rock
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 
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