"imperfect offerings"

 "The Lord accepts imperfect offerings" -Hank Smith

Recently I was assigned the spiritual thought in ward council. I shared the experience that one night i was feeling so inadequate in my abilities as the primary president.  It reminded me of the feelings i had when my mom was teaching me how to knit a simple dishcloth.  We had some really cute and useful ones that had been gifted us that we loved to use so i was happy to learn.  It was harder that it looked though, my hands felt awkward holding the needles and i had to stop and start a lot and it was tricky trying to keep it all together.  After much effort i finally finished it but it was in the shape of a trapezoid.  Not very dishcloth-like.  Just like the dishcloth i was worried I was messing up the primary and had a hard time keeping it together.  I was feeling so sad it about it and was pouring my heart out in a quiet prayer of my heart one night.  I had a comforting feeling come over me saying "I can still use your efforts"...i felt comforted and understood but i also thought of that trapezoid dishrag that i had made. I wasn't sure what happened to it but most likely we'd thrown it away.  Well much to my astonishment, the next morning i saw the trapezoid dishcloth on our counter, drying from the last night's dishes... I hadn't even noticed that we'd been using the trapezoid dishcloth all these years!!!