A Reminder to Myself

Setting the bar impossibly high
for ourselves has its advantages
(for others, not so many)
but failure, even a small one,
looms large, nags at us
like a nicked place on a fingernail
that Must. Be. Made. Smooth.
Even if it means biting it to the quick.
Relax. It's not the end of the world.
Jesus is still on the throne.
"The sun'll come up tomorrow."
We can't relax yet, though, not until
we fix IT. Smooth IT over. Make IT tidy.
Jesus will be happier when we do;
the sun will be shine a little brighter.
Won't he? 
Won't it?


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2012