As someone left my office this week, saying that his work of that day was not of the quality he expected of himself, I said, “We’re all a work in progress, right?” He laughed.

Aren’t we all?

No matter where we on the growth and development scale, each of us are a work in progress.

Consider any project or work of art along the progression from conception to completion. There are actions, times to pause and evaluate, steps and missteps, small strokes and big ones, ideas trashed and ideas pursued, major changes and nuanced enhancements, days of progress and days of decline, days of frustration and days of pride, achievements and setbacks. If such are the times of creating a painting, planning an event, carving in wood, painting a room, designing a home, choreographing a dance, cooking a dinner, writing a book, building a highway, constructing a dam…so, too, wouldn’t it be in living a life in the process of becoming the person you are created to be? And so it is for every person you know, love or encounter.

We’re all a work in progress. That is more than “okay”; it is how it supposed to be.