It's This Simple

Not a single one of us is perfect. So give yourself, and others, a break! Be the friend you know they deserve. Take the time out of your busy schedule to be real, and love someone for who they really are, imperfections and all. Learn to give second chances. Honor and glorify God each step of the way, and if you make a mistake, no worries. Live up to His standards the best that you can, and your good to go. 

These are guidelines on what it means to be a true, dedicated and faithful friend to someone.

It really is this simple! :)

Good Enough

I'm not good enough.

This is what I'm constantly telling myself.

You see, I'm a perfectionist.

No matter what I do, I just feel like there is a certain standard I'm not living up too.

I'll do something, people will praise me and tell me it's amazing, but I'll still clearly see all of the flaws. I won't be satisfied.

I constantly struggle with this. Oh, I'll just try one more time, I need it to be perfect! (27 times later.)


I don't know why I'm like this. Would I rather just be a girl without a care in the world? Truthfully, no.

I'm not perfect. I'm really, really, not. I'm just a crazy person trying to reach the clouds when she can't even get to the top of the tree.

But neither can anyone else!

This is where the hope comes in.

I'm not perfect, but I'm not any less perfect than anyone else! Don't believe me? There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. {Galatians 3:28}


We are all one. Meaning we all make mistakes, and we ALL fall short of the glory of God. None of us can be perfect. We strive so hard to achieve this, yet somehow it never quite happens. That leaves is feeling down. Instead, we should rejoice!! Why? But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. {1 John 1:7}


Our Savior IS perfect. He is everything. All the glory belongs to Him. I certainly don't deserve His grace, yet He lavishes it on me. Why? But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. {Romans 5:8} And being made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him, {Hebrews 5:9}


He died for you and I, for all of the Earth, so that we may walk freely. He sacrificed Himself, and in turn gave us the best gift we could ever ask for: life! Think about the hate and torture He endured for us on the Cross. Our Savior did not hold that against them. He humbly sacrificed himself for them. Why? That's just the way He works. 


Guess what? No matter how imperfect we see ourselves, God won''t see that. He sees the beautiful, kind people that He put on this Earth for a reason! I (nor you, sweet friend) am not a mistake. God loves me no matter how unworthy of His grace I am. 

I know that for myself, I'm going to stop trying to be the perfect person. I decided that being perfect wouldn't be any fun anyway. Why? Well, because I want to be me. I'll be as perfect as He wants for me to be.

STOP!

Sometimes, I just completely exasperate myself.

What do I want out of life? Sometimes, that all get's confused and mixed up in my crazy mind.

What's my problem, and why can't I fix it? These are all things that run through my head.

Today, my friend asked me to go to the zoo with her. I made up a lame excuse, as always, and moved on.

But that little pang of guilt? Oh, it stayed.

Why do I have to make such a big deal about everything? I'm starting to think that all these "big" problems in my life are not even problems at all. They are blessings.

It's all in how you look at it.

I have the sweetest friend ever. Mary Elizabeth and I have been friends for forever. She's amazing.

Yet, I complain when she wants to me hang out with her because I'm just not into it.

I tend to make mountains out of molehills.

I just frustrate myself with my actions and thoughts sometimes. I'd love to just stop freaking out about the littlest of things.

Sometimes, I just wish i were different. I wish I could just get together with my friend, and leave it at that. I wish I could be a more social person. i wish i could be a more perfect. person.

Today, when i got to this point, it FINALLY  hit me.

STOP!

I don't even know what I'm doing. I'm having a panic attack because I can't be the perfect person I think people expect of me.

But that's okay!

I may mot be perfect in my eyes, but I am perfect in someone's eyes. The eye's of my creator.

And that's all that matters.

So I'm done feeling sorry for my imperfect self. I'm going to start rejoicing in this fact.

I am perfectly made, issues and all.

I just can;'t see it, yet.

If the only think I ever accomplish in my lifetime is proving my love to Christ, then so be it. I'm perfectly happy with that!

i'm generally such an upbeat person. I am so tremendously blessed, and I have no reason to be sad or worried!

I've got someone to back me up. Forever.