Living Perfection May Not Seem Ideal

Throughout our human lives we come to many different crossroads.  Sometimes we experience pain upon these experiences.  If we look back upon our life at these experiences, how much of that pain was existent due to our relentless pursuit of our ideals?  Was it our own expectations upon said ideals that were not fulfilled?  At the same time, we can also look back upon many moments of seeming perfection.  Serendipity.  The moment when all things connect and everything seems as one.  Why is it that we lose sight of this feeling?  Why do we continually brush aside this recognition of the divine, establish expectations within what we would prefer to be reality and pursue another lesson from the "hard way?"  At what point will we relish in the moment of perfection and cling loosely to our ideals?  A powerful way is in our meditation or prayer.  When we pray for the end result of peace, LOVE, togetherness and a feeling of perfection rather than an idealistic way to achieve such, we allow the divine mind of God unbridled freedom toward our righteous actuality.  It is our own ideals that stand in the way of truth.  Once we align our ideals with that of truth we will be able to experience the perfection that is always present.  Peace.