Standards and Stability – Being Dad with Phil Lower, August 30, 2022

I want things to flow easily. Who doesn’t? But that is not my life experience. My experience is that life is hard and full of challenges.

There are standards that have to be met for everything and everything has variability.

On the Earth, stability is often perceived as the Status Quo with compromise and give and take.

But in engineering stability is perceived as a process that produces a consistent result. That result falls within a range of tolerance until it breaks. Again, this is another way of looking at a status quo.

I have been amazed by some different forms of stability. Benchmark standards to which all other standards are calibrated.

Consider Righteousness doing what is right at all times.

Consider Purity being unmixed or uncut and without contaminants.

If you’re religious,

Consider Holiness as living according to the purity and righteousness of God.

Now consider how you personally meet those standards. That is my biggest challenge. I almost never do.

I wake up tired because I slept late. I eat the wrong food out because I’m impatient and don’t want to wait until I get home. I focus on the less effective part of a solution because I have imperfect information.

I can always strive to be better and my family expects me to be better. And, I then hold my family to the same standards to see them improve.

It’s a challenge I will live for my whole life.

Thoughts from Hebrews 13:8

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