Perfection

By Sr. Kathryn J. Hermes, F.S.P.

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"I am grateful I learned early on through serious illness that real "perfection" comes through suffering:

through darkness faced, disaster overcome, and temptation endured. 

When one has been taken apart and rebuilt through this process, then "perfection" does roll off our fingers:

a perfection that is received. 

I don't need to achieve or accomplish anything to be perfect. 

I only need to surrender to what God is doing in me and through me in the world. 

It may look "perfect" according to others, or it may appear a complete disaster as did the crucifixion of Jesus. 

In either case, as long as God is glorified, it is perfectly fine with me."

11 February 2011, Friday

11.59am