Show Standard Standard of Excellence At the height of his career Claude Monet the famed French painter destroyed 12 pictures ofa of otla a sheet of water the fruit of three years' years work because they did not rise to his standard If our sense of what is good in conduct were as high and sensitive as that of this artist we would be dissatisfied with many of the choices that we wa make How often we accept the second best simply because we have no standard of excellence When we wa weare weare are too easily influenced by the crowd we stop short of the best our decisions are made in accordance accordance accordance accord accord- ance with poor human humn ideals deals in instead instead instead in- in stead of in obedience to the will of God |