​Blog 651 – 06.02.2017

The Reason We Seem Flawed

A favorite verse of mine says, “We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency might be of God.” I have written to this point many times. And yet there is more to say on this subject. Our bodies are not perfect, just clay vessels. Many of us look back on pictures of our younger self and wish we had that body, that skin, that hair again and swear we would take better care of it all and make it last longer if we but had the chance. But be honest, our body was not perfect even then. We had maybe fewer cracks and wrinkles, fewer pounds, and more hair then but most of us would have to admit that we were not completely happy with our enclosures then either. Our body is not the treasure. Our body is not the “I am I” that is us. It is only a container that holds the precious and perfect treasure than is us in this time and space playground.

Your brain, your knowledge is not perfect, and it is not you. I told someone today that I hope that I never think that I know it all for I have a sneaking suspicion that probably most of the things that I think I know are incorrect. Somewhere we have gotten the notion that because we see our seeming flaws that we are not perfect, whole, or holy just as we are. I love the phrase used by Papa in the book and movie, The Shack, where she says of her garden which represents Mack that though both may seem to the untrained eye to be “wild and a mess” that they are, he is, we all are, “perfectly in process.” I have heard Christians bemoan, “I am not perfect just saved” all of my life. And I have heard them sing and even sung myself, “Would He devote that sacred head for such a worm as I.” We are not worms, no offense intended to all you little wigglers – for you too are perfectly what you were made to be, as we are perfectly in process. We are at even at our seeming worst still perfectly in the process of awakening to our highest potential. We are truly magnificent beings.

Back to the unwritten question proposed by the title of this blog – Why do we seem or think ourselves flawed? The answer is simple we are not thinking most of the time as a patient loving parent but as a very impatient inexperienced child. It has been written that experience works patience but even the very inexperienced in love know perfection in process when they see it. A mother or father holding their new born child knows that no matter their challenges that they are perfect. As does a lover holding his or her lover in their arms. Another favorite word says, “He that fears is not made perfect in love.” That verse hints that love truly does have the power to see us as and to make anything and anyone one perfect, even everything and everyone.

Want to live in a perfect world? Heaven? Stop looking for flaws. How exactly does one do that, Crazy Dave? By first learning to see ourself flawless, spotless, and perfectly in process as we were on that first day we came blinking into the sun. Oh, and my friend when we can see how perfect we truly are it is but a small leap to see that same perfection in everyone and everything. It is indeed “Love we must hold onto, never easy but we must try.” It all so much easier when we quit trying to find fault and just love everything and everyone in our life the best way that we can beginning with that one who needs it and wants it most, and no I do not mean God or at least not in the highest best sense but that God-likeness in each of us. We are perfect and perfectly loved by the One who holds that title hands down, hands up, or hands clapping in a standing ovation. Take a bow the applause is for you, perfect one. You are a beautiful spotless reflection of the One.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White