Sunday, August 17, 2014

Perfectly obvious


I remember when I was a recently-ordained priest in Dallas, and I must have been rambling on and on to my spiritual director about needing to be perfect. He put up with it for a while and then stopped me.

"Michael," he asked, "have you ever made a mistake?"

I frowned and said, "Of course I have!"

"Then you can relax, you can't be perfect, That ship has sailed. Why not find a goal that won't drive us both crazy?"

Ouch!

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