It is not about being perfect. It is about love.

I recently read a line from Richard Rohr which has stayed with me as it says it all for me in facing life's challenges of the past week.   It goes like this:
What matters in life is not about being perfect for it is really about love.
The point is that God does not love us because we are perfect but so that we can change (or maybe more so that we can grow).

For someone brought up on an education that had perfection as one of its keystones, this is a powerful statement, even many years after leaving school.  Perfection stays with me even if I know it does not work.  Love is what matters.  Wow!  Follow that instead of aiming for perfection.

As I face issues in my work and ministry, I find this insight empowering.  Why?  Simply it tells me not to focus so much on what goes wrong and then trying to right it.  Nothing and no one, including me, is perfect.  Imperfection is part of life.  I know this but that 'perfection principle' keeps hitting me from the gut, as they say.

This goes along with another line of late that stays with me.  A movie producer was asked how he was able to face the major task of working on his film so as to scrub out one disgraced, lead actor and put in another. His line was simple.
I do not want people telling me about all the problems.  I just want to focus on what can be done to move ahead. 

So what is the power of the message?  Love allows us to make mistakes.  We just learn and grow and keep on moving on and keep on loving - self as much others.

For this entry, I will follow my own learning and not strive for perfection.  This means no picture this time.  Happy Holy Week!