The Imperfect Life Is The Only Life That Anyone Lives

Our immortality symbols (our possessions, our accomplishments, or even our children’s accomplishments) are not about the actual item, but about the glory that each thing bestows upon us…. In our society we have the problem of listening to the voice of self which tells you that you should live for yourself. The voice of self-love is even more powerful than the voice of the serpent. Pride and image-management are key self-love aspects of our American living. Though we use image-management to try to trick people to thinking we have the perfect life – the imperfect life is the only life that anyone lives, and when we accept that fact – we are on the right step to more depth with God.
–David Goetz

…and the right step toward better & healthier relationships with others.

There are two parts to accepting the fact that the imperfect life is the only life that anyone lives. The first is to stop hiding behind the false facade that we create to try to trick others into thinking we have the perfect life. We know our life isn’t perfect, but we want others to think it is. We want them to be envious of us, because we thnk that will make us feel better in some way. But it is an empty victory when we “cheat” or “lie” to gain a victory.

The second is to realize that everyone else’s life is imperfect too. Facebook, social media, and other similar tools can become our own personal marketing machines, and they lead us into comparison, competition, and ultimately to envy and covet what we see in other people’s lives. To find contentment in life, we must realize that all of our lives are similar – each one of us are an imperfect person married to another imperfect person and we are raising imperfect children in an imperfect world. We work with imperfect co-workers and live near imperfect neighbors. But all of this is ok, if we will accept the truth, take down the masks, and start living the imperfect life together, allowing God – the only Perfect One – to hold us all together loving one another in our imperfectness.

So today, realize the truth that the imperfect life is the only life that anyone lives. Take off your own mask, tear down the false walls, and start being real with other people. And strive to be content in your relationship with God – focusing on the intrinsic value you have in being a child of the Giver, rather than focusing more on the value you think you will get from your possessions and accomplishments.