Perfection's Name is Love
"In the end, everything must become love. Perfection's name is love." Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Collected Sermons P. 165 After I published yesterday's post, I read it again, and thought briefly, "What was I thinking?" That thought often occurs when I have been completely honest. The desire to "self edit" rears up, the urge to present my "self" in a better light: to seem more humble--or pleasing in another way--take your pick from the list of common virtues! :) But what I posted was pretty much what I had written in my journal, and was what I really thought about yesterday, and the funny idea of changing what I wrote has a connection with something I was pondering this past weekend. It had to do with the basic imperfection that lies at the heart of us all and the way we struggle against its acceptance in ourselves and others. I started thinking about this, when at the end of my work week, someone that I think of as highly prof...