Sunday, August 02, 2009
There was a pretty great quote on the back of our church bulletin this morning.
"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself." -Anna Quindlen
That basically sums up the past several years of my life. I have always been a perfectionist, and obviously I've never been able to be perfect. So, while it has been a very hard thing to do, I am much happier now that I have (for the most part, anyway) given up my perfectionism. The Bible says no one is perfect but Jesus, so I was never under the impression that I was going to be perfect. Life is much better without the extra, unnecessary stress of trying to accomplish the impossible.
In other news, God's involvement in my life continues. In the last post, I mentioned wanting to be baptized. Well, this morning in church, one of the announcements was "Let Pastor Brian know if you're interested in being baptized." How cool is that? I talked to him about it after church and will be baptized before I leave for college.
During our conversation, Pastor Brian mentioned that I should start bringing my bass to youth group again because we are apparently going to start having a music portion of the youth group meeting. Either that, or I misunderstood and he just wants to start playing stuff with me after meetings again. I suppose it doesn't really make a big difference, I'm happy either way.
