How well do you know yourself? Can you honestly say you are beautiful and broken? Much of my life I have run away from the broken and shadow parts of myself. I’m learning there are seeds of goodness even in the broken parts of myself. Perfectionism, a shame based facade, makes room for grace to fill the cracks of my life.
Perfection has no place in our world, the world is for those of us with imperfections. There is a wholeness about the person who has learned they can survive their own mistakes. Who can still feel complete despite divorce, estrangement, mistakes, limitations, to let go of failure. At the end of the day, we do the best we can.
Carl Jung’s shadow self is the repressed, often unconscious aspects of our personality that we deem unacceptable or undesirable, encompassing both negative and positive qualities.
There is a crack in everything God has made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgive us our faults and remind us that good is good enough.
Remind us not to give up on ourselves, but to give up instead on the search for perfection.
Remind us not to give up on the people we love, but instead to recognize that they are, like us, only human.
Help us to love ourselves and one another, making peace with our missing pieces so that we become more whole.
Smitten With Goodness 