On the detour of seeking "perfection,"
there was a time in my life
when I carried around inside myself
a sense of shame that I was imperfect,
that I made mistakes,
that I couldn't get everything "just right."
A very wise woman one day said to me
"What right have YOU to be perfect?"
And I thought about that deeply
and how even my highest heroes had imperfections,
and YES, those very flaws
were what made them unique, human, personal.
It was a Kairos moment for me.
Giving up the HUBRIS
of thinking I could be perfect.
And yet there is something "perfect"
which is willing to make its home in us,
to grace us with miraculous happenings,
if we can simply get these silly notions of "perfection"
out of the way,
that illusion that we can control everything (or ANYTHING!).
~J
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