What is perfection? A child’s laugh, a spring day, the family
gathered together for the holidays, a content cat, chocolate, all of
these things and infinitely more may be perfect but only in the most
subjective way; i.e. in the “eye of the beholder.” Forms of
non-subjective perfection; a “perfect” game in baseball, a spade royal
flush, prime numbers or scoring a “100” on a test come to mind.
Descartes held “existence itself is perfection”, which extrapolated
could lead one down the path of “everything” being perfect. So clearly the concept of
perfection can be often perfectly obscure.
So what then is “spiritual” perfection? And what flawed individual could ever hope to attain it? No one among us has lived or is living life perfectly, we all make mistakes. Spiritual perfection is not living perfectly but holding to the perfection of God. I can’t, but He can. Living on the Spiritual Basis we have learned that all are connected in spirit, the eternal spark of the divine existing in each of us regardless of station or circumstance, all equal in His eyes, His love for us, perfect; beyond time and flesh. So by a wholehearted commitment, day by day, to grow in understanding and service to Our Father we approach “perfection.” Though this flesh, this life, will never be perfect our pursuit and demonstration of faith, though often trembling, can be.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
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