OK. I admit it. I was a little annoyed during today's pre-broadcast rehearsal. Or maybe it was frustration. Or maybe a combination of both. Either way, I felt as though the choir could not reach the level of perfection that was being expected. We kept stopping, working, reaching, resetting, and once we actually delivered, we fell back again--and again. I was tempted to conclude that maybe we should just settle. Settle for less. But we kept at it, even though it seemed to take forever to arrive at the world of blissful intonation!
Somewhere along the painful journey, I again realized that there are so many life analogies to draw from this experience. Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to get pretty good at something. It may be a hobby, or a skill at work, or loving your neighbor, or listening to a spouse, friend, or child. But once you get pretty good at something, we can't (or shouldn't) stop there! We'd do well to keep going forward and go from "pretty good" to "excellent".
But oh! How hard it is to make that leap. Even harder than the "pretty good" journey was to begin with! It's ironic because if you apply some mathematics to this, you might label "pretty good" at, say, 80 or 90%. And getting to 90% has definitely taken some effort. But it's the sheer uphill climb we must be willing to undertake in order to move from 90% to 99%--a climb that takes an enormous amount of continual effort and focus.
In the end though, it makes all the difference. And I think our broadcast today reflected that.
Until next time, God be with you.
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