Fr. Richard Rohr is one of my favorite spiritual writers. In today's meditation he looks at how we deal with imperfection in life. This is applicable in any area of our lives, especially work. You may not see work as spiritual but you do have to deal with your own attitudes and beliefs about imperfection. Fr. Rohr hints at the faulty ideas of dualistic thinking: Believing you are either all perfect or never perfect. One extreme of the other. That leads to paralyzed effort in my experience. What are your thoughts?
Question of the Day:
How does one incorporate imperfection?
In a Navajo rug there is always one clear imperfection woven into the pattern. And interestingly enough, this is precisely where the Spirit moves in and out of the rug! The Semitic mind, the Eastern mind (which, by the way, Jesus would have been much closer to) understands perfection in precisely that way. The East is much more comfortable with paradox, mystery, and non-dual thinking than the Western mind which is formed by Greek logic.
Perfection is not the elimination of imperfection, as we think. Divine perfection is, in fact, the ability to recognize, forgive, and include imperfection!—just as God does with all of us. Only in this way can we find the beautiful and hidden wholeness of God underneath the passing human show. It is the gift of non-dual thinking and seeing, which itself is a gift of love, suffering, and grace. In fact, this is the radical grace that grounds all holy seeing and doing.
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clipped from thirstyfishinfo.amplify.com
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