Imperfections

One of Pamela's greatest gifts is her ability to delight in the joy of life. Futhermore, her ability to enjoy her present perfect, rather than constantly striving to some imagined but yet unattained goal, constantly reminds me to pause more often to consider the beautiful in my daily life. Life, however, does not always seem "perfect." That is to say, life as we experience it does not always seem to fit the hopes or expectations we create for ourselves. How then should we approach life's "imperfections?" My contention is that such apparent "imperfections"--painful though they often are--are indeed good things. Yet, imperfections are hardly viewed as good in a world that primarily celebrates success, victory, and fame. What then are we to do with life's imperfections?

My infrequent posts on this wonderful blog will be occasional explorations into beauty as experienced through the "imperfections" of life. Here I hope to explore how the Christian faith provides the resources for us to re-imagine life's "imperfections" as not failures, but rather as moments in which God reveals to us His plan in such a way that shows a decisive divergence between His plan and our own unhealthy fantasies for our lives. If life and its imperfections can be viewed in such a way, I believe that it is precisely in life'simperfections that we see the perfect plan of God's love working itself out in and through our lives.
I hope you enjoy these infrequent posts as I look to challenge myself to see beauty and joy in unexpected places. Perhaps, together, we might be able to imagine new ways of hoping in the midst of God's leading us through not only life's perfections, but its imperfections as well.
- Cullen