Freedom From Perfection, Part 12: Guest Post by Jen Ferguson

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Unconditional Love

If you took it all away

And before you

I was stripped

Bare and naked

And you saw my dishwater blonde hair

And my unblushed cheeks

And the lines that linger around my eyes

And you saw the fear that sometimes

Outlines my heart

And the bitterness that gnaws

On my soul

And the crass thoughts that sometimes seem to

Consume my racing mind.

And you heard the mean things that can

Pour forth from my lips

And the raw sins that I must

Confess to my Maker

And the judgments that transpire

Without me even being aware.

Would you still love me?

This unconditional love that exists –

Am I worthy?

Even when I fall down,

When I’m naked

And afraid.

When you see all there is to see –

Will you love me?

My imperfection kills me

But the pressure to keep up appearances

Chokes me even more.

Longing to be free and

Desperate for relief

From the chains that bind me

To the lies that say

One must be perfect in order

To be loved.

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Jen Ferguson is a woman who does not know how to function without Jesus, her iPhone, or chai lattes. She is a marathoner who spends most of her days chasing after her two little girls and all the duties of her two part-time jobs. She is a woman who is fitting more comfortably in the robes of grace and who is shirking off the cloak of perfectionism.

She is also becoming a dear blogging friend of mine.  You can read more of her amazing work at her blog, Finding Heaven.

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