Imperfection is Perfection

Was waiting today for some lumber to be loaded into my truck. I was bored and browsing on my phone when a lady pulled into the parking space a few feet away. She had a sticker on her window that read: "If you think you're so perfect, walk on water." 

My first thought was, "Catty much? Must have bitch sisters like me," and I laughed. But then I noticed the sticker on the bumper that said (and I can't remember the exact words) something about loving and accepting one another and had a Jesus fish symbol. That's when it struck me that the "walk on water" thing was a reference to Jesus and the sticker was a call out against those little encouraging cliches about "you're perfect just the way you are..." And my next thought was, "What an egotistical, hypocritical idiot." 

As she walked around and passed my opened window (I was parked in front of the garden entrance waiting for them to bring my awesome 32 bags of garden soil with the forklift), I said to her, "I bet I can prove you and I are both perfect." 

She looked at me like I had just spoken a foreign language, so I pointed to her sticker. She grinned and said, "Okay." 

And I said:

"We were put here to learn and grow. Our souls were meant to expand through the experiences of our physical forms. It's our purpose. Any human who knows all and can do all - like walk on water - is flawed. We are perfect just the way we are because not knowing all and doing all is how we were created to be." 

She stared at me for a minute. Opened her mouth. Shut it. Opened it again. Shut it again. Then finally said,"Okay," and continued into the garden center. 

Just another day of shaking up someone's "perfect" little world.