Perfect Imperfection...

Just what is perfection and what does it look like? Does it look like what Hollywood tells us it looks like with plastic implants all over the body and orange skin that closely resembles dried out leather? Does it look like the church tells us and a trim and prim young man or young lady carrying their bible with a perfect attitude and being all sweet and nice? Does it look like an angel or God?
Perfection to me and perfection to you are more likely than not two entirely different things. For instance when you love someone you see them as "perfect". They are not perfect in the sense that they have no faults and no blemishes and that they can do no wrong. No. They are perfect in the sense that they compliment you and everything about you. Where you are weak they are strong and visa versa. To me, perfection looks like this, brown hair, blue eyes, big smile and huge heart. That could be anyone. But I know who it is. That could be the same thing that perfection looks like to you. Maybe it looks like blonde hair and bluish green eyes and a big cheesy grin. It could look like long brown hair with brown eyes and a goofy looking grin. I don't know what it looks like to you.
I wrote a paper one time when I was in high school entitled, What Color is Love?. The paper took many different colors and compared them to each other and showed that there were different levels and different kinds of love. Just as there are many different kinds and levels of love there are equally as many kinds of perfection. Although we may think the ones that we love are perfect-and they are for us-they are actually mere perfect imperfections that add joy and excitement to our everyday lives. They all have little things about them that make them not "picture perfect" but that make them perfect for each of us.
There is one who was and is perfect in every way. He is the "picture perfect". He loved selflessly. He was infinitely bold and so humble and caring all at the same time. He never did one thing that was not called for. That is what true perfection looks like.
So, what does your picture of perfection look like? I'm not saying that it's not ok to think of the ones you love as perfect, because they are for you. What I'm saying is don't get perfect imperfections mixed up with the perfect.
See you in the clouds...