Embrace the Cracks

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"There's a lot of refined selfishness and complacency in not allowing your faults to be revealed." Fenelon

How we love the perfect. How we strive for perfection. The problem is it doesn't exist in us. You can achieve 100% on a math exam. That is perfection. There are measurable achievements. But in life perfection died in Eden. Even the perfect cup of coffee, if broken down molecularly, would reveal imperfection. 99.9% pure is the best guarantee available.

So why do we strive, fight, and reach for perfection in ourselves?

Pride? Fear? Obsession?

Perhaps.

Or maybe it's because we know we are created for greatness and a purpose. Somewhere, in the deepest part of our being, our spirit longs to taste Eden's light. Maybe our eternal self, birthed from God, is constantly trying to get back?

Our flesh, our body, our soul, is faulty and cracked in spots. Life hasn't always been kind. People have wielded spiteful swords and wounded us at various levels. But Fenelon encourages us to

"Stop trying to appear so mentally and spiritually perfect to God and man."

He suggests simplicity. Simply be you. Be authentic in your communication with God and man. Be real. Embrace the cracks.

Embrace the Cracks

So much effort to appear

whole and perfect

What a masquerade

I've been tricked into

The perfect You

cannot use the whole

Propped up perfection

dams Your Light from shining

Broken and contrite You love

Jars of clay cracked and chipped

This is how You reveal

Glorious Light to the world