If we were perfect and whole, we wouldn’t need God. When we let them, our failures, imperfections, and limitations can open our hearts of stone and move our rigid mind space toward understanding and patience.
When we enter the spiritual search for truth and for ourselves through the so-called negative and deal squarely with what is—in ourselves, in others, or in the world around us—it takes all elitism out of spirituality. We are humble and walk the imperfect path.
There is no more counterintuitive spiritual idea than the possibility that God might actually use and find necessary what we fear, avoid, deny, and deem unworthy. This is the clay the master potter uses to shape our hearts to His kind of love because we can’t love like this on our own.
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
We are called to love imperfect people imperfectly
“Truly, I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.” —Matthew 25:40
Smitten With Goodness 