Perfection

To be perfect is what I have strived for most of my life.

Everyone wants to be perfect, right?

I think we all have the wrong idea what perfect is.

When I was all tied up in religion, I used to come home from a service, feeling so worthless.

The doctrine of that faith, taught me that God wanted me to change, so he could love me.

Even as a child, I could never embrace that in my soul.

My line of thinking is this, if God made me, and I am created in his image, then why in the world would he have made me imperfect?

Is God imperfect, since I am created in his image?

Make me imperfect, then have me struggle all of my life to throw away my humanity, to please him?

Why not just make me perfect in the first place?

It made no sense to me.

God does not bring confusion, lies do.

God made me, just the way, I am supposed to be.

I am perfect, just the way I am.

Our behaviors (sins), actually are life's lessons.

Touching a hot stove, teaches us, not to touch a hot stove.

Lying teaches us, that no one will trust us, if we do lie.

I am not condoning sin, yet, we all have learned that we do sin in the religious sense.

God is perfect, and he makes NO mistakes.

He allows all things in this world,  to exist.

We may never understand now, why there is pain, tragedy, and sin in the world, but there is a purpose in all things.

We would never be able to understand the beauty of what God has planned for us in eternal paradise, if we never experienced the setting of this sometimes painful world.

In all things we learn.

Hate teaches Love

Pain teaches Joy

Jealousy teaches Appreciation

Murder teaches Sanctity of Life

Lies teach Truth

Polar opposites, yet, one without the other, would make the one left still standing, one dimensional.

A rainy and cloudy day, makes us appreciate a sunny day.

For so long I was trapped in a place in my mind, where the world did not make sense.

It was the line of thinking that I needed to be perfect, and I was unacceptable to God, that confused me.

Lies of some people's opinions about God.

God is not a hateful cruel God.

He would never torture us with such confusion.

Man made religions surely do.

Perfection is not a reality.

Perfection is a Person.

We are, the way were created to be.

I used to not even want to be me, when I was caught in that place- of fearing, never being good enough.

God was never in that line of thinking.

God is Perfection

He had a design, a blueprint if you will, when he created all of us.

He purposely made us the way we are.

The story of Christ- God coming in bodily form, being 100% human, and 100% God, was a story that we should all embrace.

God was trying to teach us a lesson of our humanity through that story.

It is ok to be human.

Perfection is not doing everything right every single day of our lives.

Perfection is embracing our Humanity...embracing that we are created in a divine image...embracing the heart of God.

We are the heart of God.

Being human, is what we were created to be.

God himself, was a human for a time in history.

Someday...we will all regret, denying our very human hearts.

That place for me, has already come, I regret wishing I was something other, than what I am.

I am human...my skin was formed from the Master Artist.

We are in an essence, his sculptures.

That place of shame and self doubt, used to be HERE....(in my heart).

That HERE....that shameful place that once was here...is now gone.