WE ARE ONLY HUMAN

We are Only Human


We can admit our limitations and defects...or can we? Some time ago I blogged about an unemployed cross builder looking for work, and I am posting it again as part of this blog.
Funny, I had no job offers yet I continue to bump into perfent people, that is, they claim to not be responsible for THEIR problems!
UNEMPLOYED CROSS BUILDER SEEKS WORK
Find this heading a little strange?
One of the biggest issues I find people facing that I work with is the ongoing search for personal perfection. Can you relate?
Before I offend anyone, it is not my intent. Please understand that my beliefs in a higher power are in keeping with the fundamentals of formal religions, but I do not profess to be of any religion. I respect all who gain strength from their faith.
I read a book called the BIBLE. Great stuff to be learned in there. In the “New Testament” the central character is a man named Jesus Christ who was a marvelous teacher. The book also tells me HE was perfect.
His reward, a group who were afraid of his teachings and his perfection tried to kill him by nailing Him to a cross.
With so many people seeking perfection, and not readily knowing where to by a cross for those who succeed in the achievement of perfection, I thought there might be an opportunity to build crosses for perfect people. So far, I’m dramatically under employed; I haven’t had my first customer yet.
So if you know a truly perfect person who needs a cross, please send them my way. If you are trying to be perfect in every way, please keep my number close by and call when you need your cross-wood only!
I think you get the point. The search for perfection and expectation that it will happen may well kill you. In my own life, things turned around dramatically when I sought progress, not perfection. I will never be a customer for a cross, I can now accept that through being taught by others and an intimate relationship with myself, a higher power and many “teachers” that have been a part of my life. I may be able to build a cross; I’ll never be worthy to occupy one in a biblical sense.
Want to learn about you, and achieve more out of life with the talents within you, while accepting you’re not perfect? Want to learn how to accept your best is good enough? Want to reduce the amount you beat yourself up for not being perfect? Want to stop feeling that in some way you are a failure?
We can help. The Co-Creative Process of Life Recovery” uses proven spiritual foundations to help you build a foundation for the life you dream about. It works. We coach using it and are prepared to spend an hour with you on the phone to see if we make a good team. Get in touch by going to www.hopeserenity.ca and clicking contact or Ask Keith.
You might not need across, but we offer other things that will help you with your life journey."

When we admit the truth about our limitations and defects, we create fertile ground for new growth and change. But if we wallow in hopeless belief that our defects are just our true nature, we grow committed to them. That is the difference between powerlessness and helplessness. When we accept our powerlessness to control everything (not anything but EVERYTHING), we wake up to a deeper wisdom - that more wilfulness only brings more defeat. Some of our needs can only be met and some growth can only happen when we receive a healing infusion of outside help.

But when we tenaciously refuse to accept our powerlessness, our dogged wilfulness keeps us trying harder to do what we cannot do alone. Eventually that leads to resignation and helplessness. Our better choice is both painful and hopeful. We can admit our limitations and defects. Then we become receptive to help and acceptance from our mate, other people and from our Higher Power.

We are only human, and none that I've met deserves the symbolic cross. Look at yourself, are you trying to be perfect or trying to appear perfect to your own detriment? Are you ready to change an face the fact, in fact embrace that you are human with flaws? Why not take action within yourself if these thoughts resonate within?