Resumes
present a perfect picture of the candidate.
It is properly worded, properly laid out, properly stating everything
good and perfect of the man or woman at hand.
And
what about the imperfect? What about we
who are flawed, marred, lost? When does
our time to shine come into play?
Hold
on, my friend. Hope is ahead.
Philip
Yancey gives us this:
“Imperfection is the prerequisite
for grace. Light only gets in
through
the cracks.”
How
about that. Light Shines Through the
Cracks.
My
Bible teaches me this …
“Where
sin abounds, grace abounds more.” And
you could use a lot of different words for “sin”. (Romans 5:20)
At
another place we find this … “God’s power shows up best in weak people.” (2
Corinthians 12:9)
Does
a good person, a perfect person need the grace of God? One would think not, after all, they are
good. Maybe even perfect – or so we
think.
And
then comes the hard reality of “For all have sinned and fall short of God’s
ideal.”
So,
for all you wanna-be perfects, you “holy ones”, you “righteous to the core”
types, and especially we of the “imperfect specimen” brand … thanks be to God
for grace that is offered. It is
abundant, overflowing, and greater than all our short-coming, our fallacies,
our sins and our failures.
We
are offered grace. You, me, the
President, Billy Graham, The Pope, and the woman in the gutter on 1st
Avenue in Seattle – grace is offered.
Ann
Lamott says this: “We are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together
before we show up. The opposite may be
true: We may not be able to get it together until after we show up in such
miserable shape.”
(Help Thanks Wow: Three Essential Prayers
by Ann Lamott)
Some
other wise one said this: “Thunderously, inarguably,
the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground:
murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters.”
Grace
flows down. How great is that!
Now,
put THAT on your resume.
Offering Words of
Hope Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word at a Time
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