not a perfect person

have you guys heard that song: the reason?
"i'm not a perfect person... " blah blah blah....

anyway, it strikes me...
it seems like sometimes we have super-human expecations of people or we expect our happiness to be based off someone... and I'm the first one to admit that there is someone who makes me extremely happy.... but i don't base my happiness off him. (anyhow) we're all human. we all make mistakes, we all have our flaws and pet peeves.

i showed stephen a little graph i made ( i wish i could post it up here) where whether we've done lots of wrong or hardly any wrong, since we're human the scale of human morality vs. God's moralitty makes us all the same.... think of it like this---

Martha has a morality of 80
Sonya has a morality of 10

who's better? Martha. now think of a graph and plot it in your head.... yeah it seems like Martha is waaaay up there. HOWEVER.... let's now say

Martha= 80
Sonya= 10
God= 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

now plot that one in your head, and you'll realize Martha and Sonya's moral difference is not that much... in fact, visually, they'd be in the same level... that's why it says in the Bible that all fall short of the glory of God. it always surprised me when i would read Mother Teresa say she was a dirty rag in God's eyes (it's freakin' MOTHER TERESA!!! how can she say such thing?!) but she was a human too. compared to God, she is a filthy rag. and so are you. and so am i.

that's the beauty of Grace, God provides it freely to you and me, Grace to clean us from the dirt we have so that we'll be fresh clean rags whenever we repent. sure, we're still rags, but at least we're clean ones! ;)