Perfection is alusive as a rainbows end!

Its been a while since I blogged that's because I cant get on to the computer there is always little hands on it!! So if anyone would like to kindly donate a ipad to me just for blogging I would be sooo grateful lol!!!

So I have been thinking alot about perfection and what we as a society define perfection as!
Last week I was going to start by saying I am sat typing this with my dark roots down to my ears, my eyebrows are in such need of shaping that they are scarily becoming a monobrow and I am carrying 14 pounds of fat that I should be carrying!! But alas I now have blond hair again and I punished my eyebrows into submission last night!! But the pounds are still there!!!

I do not aim for perfection but I always want better so I must have that in my head to be slimmer, brighter better! The world surrounds us with photos of what we should be looking like half of the photos are airbrushed but do we still hanker for the worlds view of perfection.

The world is ugly there is hatred and hunger and loss and disunity and homelessness and we don't like to look at it, it makes us feel uncomfortable but its real and so not perfect. This is the world we are living in and I know that me striving for perfection is not going to change any of that what I want to do is accept the imperfect and love those who are imperfect just like Jesus would do and try and make a imperfect world a little better by loving and giving and sharing and reaching out to those who no one will touch.

I read this the other day its deep so stick with it!!
In out throwaway culture, perfectly good goods are
discarded because they have in some way become flawed , slightly broken, or simply no
longer of a desire colour. The waste is atrocious.

In our throw away culture, perfectly good people are
discarded because they are presumed to be in some
way flawed, in some way broken , or the wrong colour.
The waste is abominable. Even insurance companies
will refuse life-cover for some of these.

The presumption is perfection against which judgements
are made discarding decided. But perfection is as elusive as a rainbows end.
And Jesus, broken by the brutality of the cross, showed in his life the broke
openness of compassion to those beyond any margins  we dare impose.

God is bigger!!

Happy New Year!!
So Christmas is over for some households but we are clinging to our green christmas tree and the lovely lights becuase when they all come down and get put away we know the holidays are over!!
One more night looking at the lights!!

This last week  I have had insomnia as soon as my head has touched the pillow my mind has gone into overdrive so many thoughts of all sorts of topics have not stopped whirring through my mind! Things that I really didn't think I was worried about became gigantic!! I would get up take a walk through the house smile at the black bird who didn't realise that it was night time and was singing away at 1.00a.m!! I would check on line and chat with another friend who is going through a tough time and couldn't sleep, then I would try again and lay my weary head down to no avail!!
I would try and pray! I tried thinking of scripture then the thoughts would come back grr! Once again I would get up and this time take a duvet downstairs get cosy and start reading.

What do you do when you cant sleep? Last night I started to think that God is bigger than any thought, worry or problem I, or anyone will ever have to face so through the list of whirring thoughts I placed that thought next to God and asked the question 'Is it bigger than God?' every time the answer was 'no'

Its hard to picture God isn't it? so now I picture a huge mountain that I believe He created so I measure anything against that mountain!!

So at the start of 2013 for all of us that are facing problems big and small this quote is for you!!