I'm Not Perfect

I'm glad I'm not perfect - why?? well it would be really hard trying to perfect being perfect every day, I'm sure it would get very very tiring and i can imagine it would be very lonely.  I like living in a world where perfect does not exist, where just being myself is accepted,doing things to the best of my ability is what is asked of me.  Perfect is not needed - it is to high a bar to reach, once you think you have reached it the bar suddenly goes higher.  

Really, striving for perfection only brings feelings of imperfection, feelings of inadequacy and failure.  Nobody is perfect, they may think they are but really what is perfection. a person who thinks they are perfect through their own eyes may be the complete opposite in somebody else's.

What is wrong with just being who you are? Accepting you for you, not aiming to meet other peoples expectations, or trying to be someone/something you are not. Nobody wants you to be different, just being yourself is enough.  

Your probably reading this thinking, how do you know.  Well i do - i haven't always been where i am now.  I haven't always accepted me for who i am. I've been to places so dark i lost sight of everything - just because i though it would make me 'better' and to make out actually I'm fine there's not problem here!!! But it got me no where other than back in my own pit!  I was always striving for something different to please someone else. My 'bar' changed for whoever i was around, even those that knew me and just accepted me i tried to change for.  


When you get to a place where you accept where you are at, and who you are life gets so much easier. 

The enemy wants you to keep looking for perfection because he knows you can't reach it, this schemes seem achievable but then it changes once you get close to it.  he lures you into that trap and goes deeper and deeper until it feels almost impossible to get out.

BUT the good news is you can get out, there is a way to stop striving for perfection - its not always easy but it takes courage.

 My life changed to day i stopped concentrating on what i wasn't, and who i thought i was, who everyone else wanted me to be and stopped and focused on who God says i am.  To him i AM perfect - but i don't need to do anything other than accept him to be perfect.  i don't have to be the right weight, look the right way, get the right grades, go to the right school, live in the right neighbourhood i just have to be me!! That's it!!!!!

All he wants is for me to accept that he loves me I am loved 
and accepted just for who i am!! to God i have no flaws!!!