Doing What’s Right Poorly

Sometimes, in my zeal to do what's right, I actually do things POORLY partly due to what I lack in perspective, or due to that same zeal, I become blind to the variables that help me MEASURE how I am doing. Doing what's right poorly is part of our purification and aspiration to do good and be extraordinary. It's part of that spirit that is in us. Doing what's right poorly is what we do when we err not because we are filled with malice but because we are filled with the desire to do what's right. And that's why we have to be kind to one another, to be quick to forgive and to somehow appreciate others' suffering when their deeds do not match their loving intentions. Doing the right thing poorly is universal and human-- a flaw of mortality that enables us to do great things because humanness is a requirement for the availing of the gifts of the Atonement. That is why we need a Saviour who loves us, sees through the errors and limitations of mortality and who can see the desires of our hearts. That is why we need Him to purify and justify our lacks and imperfections. That is why we need Him to soothe our hurts and afflictions. Doing what's right poorly is an aspect of the flesh. And we need a Saviour to see what's in our hearts especially when others can't see how we can even love so poorly. Mere thoughts as I try to concentrate on breathing.....