Perfect verse Failure

Perfection verses Failure

Perfection:  per·fec·tion

pərˈfekSH(ə)n/

noun

1. the condition, state, or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws or defects.

   "the satiny perfection of her skin"

   • a person or thing perceived as the embodiment of perfection.

     "I am told that she is perfection itself"

     synonyms:

     the ideal, a paragon, the ne plus ultra, a nonpareil, the crème de la crème, the last word,the ultimate, the best; More

   • the action or process of improving something until it is faultless or as faultless as possible.

     "among the key tasks was the perfection of new mechanisms of economic management"

     synonyms:

     improvement, betterment, refinement, refining,honing "the perfection of her technique" failure noun 1. an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure. 2. nonperformance of something due, required, or expected: a failure to do what one has promised; a failure to appear. 3. a subnormal quantity or quality; an insufficiency: the failure of crops. 4. deterioration or decay, especially of vigor, strength, etc.: The failure of her health made retirement necessary. 5. a condition of being bankrupt by reason of insolvency. 6. a becoming insolvent or bankrupt: the failure of a bank. 7. a person or thing that proves unsuccessful: He is a failure in his career. The cake is a failure.  Perfection verses Failure I am a Perfectionist. It's a horrible thing to be when your not perfect. Everyone knows I can't spell. This bothers me more than it could anyone else. When I look at the words dose and does, I have know clue which one is which. This is just a little example of what I live with. I like my girls have dyslexia. I hide mine. It has always made me feel like a failure. I can be writing some thing that has a d in it and will write a g every time. I don't know right from left. This is a true fact. I can't tell time looking at a clock with hands on it. Failure? I don't really think so, that's how God made me. Frustrating YES!!!!!!!!! I can't read instructions.Never have been able to, it has to have pictures, or I have to watch some one doing it. So when I discovered that YouTube had tutorials on it that showed step by step how to do most any task. I was so excited. This was made just for me. I have taken a computer apart and put a new hard drive in it. WOW. I just watched it on YouTube. I have been taught to crochet by YouTube tutorials. They're great. But I still struggle with making things perfect. Back at the first of the year I made an afghan called a drop in the pond for a new baby boy named Jonathan. I remade it 3 times. Because I just couldn't get it right. And this was the second one I had made. But it wasn't perfect and it was a gift and I don't want to give anyone anything that isn't my very very best or perfect. I finally achieved semi perfection and sent it by Rodney to the daddy of the baby. He was pleased I guess because he didn't know anything about crocheting. So why did I drive my self crazy. I have been working feverishly this year to get caught up on all the projects I had stated that I hadn't finished. This is a product of the depression I have been in, start a new project (maybe this one will lift my spirits) NOPE, didn't work. Just made me feel more over whelmed.  And I have still felt like a failure. It took me nearly 2 years from start to finish to complete a quilt for Anna. Felt like a failure. Now I have started the peppermint afghan for Christmas decoration, so pretty. And it dawned on me that We're getting a baby boy at our Church and we're all excited about the new life that will be joining us. It will be our precious Olivia's new baby brother. So I laid the peppermints down ( sorry LaDonna Campbell Koontz) and started a so soft blue baby afghan. It's crocked. Not just crocked, Chelsea's first Afghan crooked. That's bad. The story of my life. I'm sitting here trying to decide whether to start over. I'ts 3/4's done.  Then I found out that Shawn's sisters baby is due in October and not in December as I thought (Oh My Where Is MY Perfection Now). This will probably be my daughters, sister-in-law, in 5 or 10 years as fast as there moving....(sorry Chelsea had to poke the bear). So Perfection and Failure has been on my mind this morning.  With God we will never be perfect till we get to Heaven we need to strive of Perfection. But we need to understand we will Fail at times. And I'm talking about in out spiritual walk with Jesus. Jesus was the only one on earth was that was ever perfect. We don't need to beat our selves up, as I do when we don't complete a task perfectly for God. We need to ask him for help, open our hearts and let his guidance in that's the only way we will ever get near perfect on earth. Think of opening your heart to Jesus as me watching at YouTube tutorial. If you watch to the very end they will teach you exactly how you need to do a task perfectly. That's all we need to do with Jesus if we listen, open hearts and pay attention until the very end we will get as close to perfection as a fallen creation can. This gives me a little hope that maybe one day, I can at least crochet a straight side on a baby afghan. Think today how you can become a little closer to Jesus, that will make you a little closer to perfect. Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: Ecclesiastes 7: 20 For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Mark 10:18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. John 17:  Jesus Prays for All Believers 20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you[e] known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”