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Be Perfect

Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48
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You wouldn’t send a baby
to buy milk at the hardware store 
yet you expect me, a cretin, 
to be the perfect Christian

Jesus, you have the chutzpah 
of P.T. Barnum
if you are really endorsing 
perfectionism: 

the ideal set up for a large-scale fail
the guarantor of psychic pain
that bastard child of pride and shame
that can make you hysterical.

Perhaps we are made for perfection
but never get there
we never come to completion 
until after our last prayer.  

Perhaps your intention
is we own our imperfection
and in any situation
act as if we are a Christian. 

Maybe you mean, 
“get busy as God is busy”
that is, constantly creating  a new creation.
We all know this one is not perfection.

That’s for your attention to this imperfect poem. If you liked it, give it a heart.

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