You Don’t Have to be Perfect

Written by: Harold Kushner

The Mssing Piece (by Shel Silverstein) tells the story of a circle that was missing a piece.  A large triangular wedge had been cut out of it.  The circle wanted to be whole with nothing missing, so it went around looking for its missing piece.  But because it was incomplete and therefore could roll only very slowly, it admired the flowers along the way.  It chatted with worms.  It enjoyed the sunshine.  It found lots of different pieces, but non of them fit.  So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on searching. more…