Perfection.
It's something I've strived for since before I can remember.
A burden I've carried from a young age.
Never happy with any of my work.
Never content with what I've done,
only seeing the improvements to be made.
Today God lifted that burden.
He showed me that it's okay to be broken.
It's okay to not be okay.
It's okay to be sad.
To be upset.
To be hurting.
In reality - we live in a broken world,
full of broken people.
And I'm one of them.
As a Christian, my life isn't perfect.
In fact, a lot of the time it feels like it's anything but that.
It's not that as Christians our lives will be easy.
It's not that as a Christian my life will be all sunshine and flowers.
We go through struggles. We go through hardships. We go through trials.
It's how we react and deal with those situations that matters.
We might not always be happy, but we can find Joy through the cross.
I'm not the mistakes I've made.
I'm not my past.
I'm not the things that have happened to me.
My desire is that when people see me,
they won't see Aunica.
My desire is that they'll see my Father.
That through me, they'll see a part of my Savior.
The reason for my Joy.
That through the cracks in my heart,
He'll shine through.
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 -->
To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great
revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of
Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in
hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I
am strong.
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