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Today’s text
Reflection
Perfection is not about arriving. It is about moving toward
wholeness, which is what the word actually means, moving … toward completion of
what you are.
And what are we? We are individual expressions of the Being
of the Creator, the One, the heavenly Father who is love.
We are individual expressions of Love in flesh and bone,
heart and mind, each one unique, each one different.
Perfection is not a static state of arrival at a final
destination. It is not purity measured by a standard outside our own being and
identity.
Perfection, movement toward completion, is walking deeper
into that unique expression of Love that we each are.
The patterns of our lives, who are friends are, the work we
do, the people we love and treasure might faithfully be assessed by asking, do
they allow and empower me to be the deepest truest expression of the Love the
Spirit is shaping in me through genetics, my history and experiences?
Do they give me wings and allow my spirit to soar, or do
they tie me to the earth so that I am less that God intends?
God seeks to love the world to greater life through each of
us. When we fail to take seriously the call to perfection, the Love God is … is
less known. The world is less loved. And we are less ourselves, our joy erodes,
our beauty fades.
So we seek and find the sacraments that feed our souls, the
places, the graces and faces that move us further along the road to the beauty
of perfection in love.
That is our life’s task. It is the Spirit’s work. It is difficult, sometimes painful, but nothing
else much matters or gives quite so much joy.
Pr. David L. Miller
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