Not Ready Yet
We recently bought a house.
At the same time, we’re renovating it.
And at the exact same time, we’re preparing our current house to sell.
Which means life lately has felt like a constant cycle of paint samples, cardboard boxes, donation piles, and trying to remember where we packed the coffee mugs.
It’s exciting.
But honestly, it’s exhausting too.
A few days ago our realtor called and said she had people asking to come see our current house.
The problem was…
We weren’t ready.
Not “the house isn’t perfect” ready.
I mean genuinely not ready.
There were unfinished projects.
Closets half cleaned out.
Random stacks of things we hadn’t figured out what to do with yet.
Parts of the house still looked like transition instead of completion.
My first instinct was to wait.
Give us another week.
Maybe two.
Maybe even a month.
Let us finish becoming presentable first.
But we agreed to show it anyway.
And as people walked through the house, something became clear.
Most people’s expectations of perfection were far different from our own.
Most people understand what it looks like when something is still becoming.
That made me think…
Maybe we assume everyone else expects perfection because that’s what we expect from ourselves.
We hide unfinished parts of our lives as if they were flaws instead of evidence that growth is happening.
We want polished faith.
Polished marriages.
Polished emotions.
Polished answers.
We want people to see the version of us where all the boxes are unpacked and every room looks complete.
But real life rarely works that way.
Most of us are living in transition more than we realize.
Still healing.
Still learning.
Still rebuilding parts of ourselves.
Still figuring things out as we go.
And maybe one of the healthiest things we can learn is how to stop apologizing for being in process.
Because honestly…
Some of the most meaningful people I’ve ever met didn’t inspire me because they looked perfect.
They inspired me because they were real while they were still growing.
That made me think…
Maybe unfinished doesn’t mean broken.
Maybe it simply means we’re still being built.
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