imPerfection!
If you have worked with me in the past, you have probably noticed my Mesa bundle. Traditionally, a mesa cloth is a brightly colored, beautiful textile that you would find in the Q’ero Communities in Peru. My Mesa cloth, however, is plain white. I’ve received a lot of comments on its beauty and the simple ‘perfection’ of it.
I am well aware that many people assume I’m a perfectionist, and maybe to a certain degree I am. (My sister, who secretly cringes at the fact that I don’t own a clothes iron, would beg to differ!!😉) But I didn’t choose the white cloth for its perfection. I chose it to be the blank canvas for which life creates the art.🎨
I love looking at the colors of life and the wisdom it has collected over the years! There is a dark smudge mark from a powerful sacred fire I tended. And I smile whenever I come across the little blue stain - that reminds me of my son’s sweet, sharing heart & his blue raspberry slushie. 💙
You see, I was never trying to portray perfection. 😉
I have been the victim AND played the villain.😈
I have made more mistakes than I can count, and there are people in my life that I choose not to communicate with. I’m guessing there are more than a few people from my past who would think I had absolutely NO business dispensing healing or spiritual advice when they would consider me to be ‘a mess.’
But, I think that’s the point!
Life is in the messy! That’s where the art, inspiration, and most importantly - the wisdom 🎓 - can be found.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to climb Mt. Everest with a guide who has a shiny, perfect map. I want the guide who has traveled the path so many times she knows it like the back of her hand. The same one who has fallen down over and over, but still always rises with grit and determination under her nails.
🌟Did you know that the highest form of gold you are able to buy is 99.9%? It’s impossible to have anything that is 100% gold. Do you know why? Because gold is liquid and it’s the imperfections that make it solid.
Hmmm…. Sound familiar?
So why do we try so hard to hide away our ‘messy’? We all have it if we are still walking the planet.🌎
Why do we hide away the thing that makes us human? And how can we possibly help each other if we fight so hard to hold up the illusion of perfection? It’s so heavy anyway! Aren’t your arms getting tired?
It is unattainable in this physical form, so why do we expect it in ourselves or from others? How hard is that to maintain, and how hard are you on yourself when you inevitably fall short? 🤨
I believe we are meant to live and fall, make mistakes, and hopefully learn somewhere along the way. I think imperfection, and more importantly, the wisdom and growth obtained from the lesson, are actually the whole point of our existence.
(Well that, and a little thing called love!💗😉)
So I just don’t see how a Loving, Wise, and All-Knowing Creator would ever create us so faulty to begin with, and then expect perfection - or a mediator to purify our imperfections - as the only way to return to oneness with that Creator. (That’s just my perspective though.🤷🏻♀️)
But, as I was typing out the title of this piece, autocorrect changed it to ‘(I’m)perfection’, and I think Spirit knocked it out of the park 🏟️before I even got started!!!
Joy bubbled up in that moment, as I was reminded of a friend’s meditation experience. She received a message so profound, it is never far from my mind. In her beautiful moment, she was shown Michelangelo’s David sculpture and received the knowing that God views each one of us as beautiful, priceless, perfect works of art!!!! 🖼️
Imagine that!!!?!
You are already loved beyond measure just for being you!! 💜
ALL of it!
ALL of who you are!☯️
The boring fresh canvas🤍and the life well lived! 🎨
There is no separating the art from The Artist!!
Now imagine reflecting that aspect of the Divine out into your world…🪞
🔥Imagine living in a community that shared their mistakes and truths with each other.
🔥Imagine if we recognized and celebrated the growth and wisdom learned from making mistakes.
🔥Imagine the safety of living in a world where we accepted and supported each other, & ourselves as our whole selves…
I’mperfections and all. 😉
💗 Big Love & Many Blessings🌸
~Amanda
©05/2025
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This article is absolutely beautiful—and so true! We’ve become so accustomed to hiding our human-ness that we’ve been conditioned to live in-authentically, shaped by what we’ve witnessed rather than what we truly feel.
The whole ‘Nobody cares what you’re going through, just act like everything is fine’ mentality forces us into this cycle of being disingenuous and unsupportive. And in doing so, it isolates us from the very thing that’s meant to connect us--our shared, messy, real human experience.
Thank you for writing this—it’s a powerful reminder! Many Blessings sent!