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Stop trying to earn God's love

Hi Folks

These are challenging times for us perfectionists. From my considerable experience of perfectionism, I know that it’s shoddy foundation is a desire to please and get approval or a crumb of affection from others.

Sometimes it comes in the form of “I have to do it perfectly to prevent bad stuff from happening.”  Perfectionism is a really good way to cultivate misery, especially when the “other” is God Almighty.

The task of life is not to get God to love you or to try and please God.

The task of life is to is to wake up to the fact that God already loves and is pleased and go into the world and make as much noise with that love that you wake up those who are still sleeping.

If you can’t handle that, can we at least give up perfectionism for the rest of Lent.

With a smile
Rob

Posted by The Rev. Dr. Rob Voyle with