Fabulous and Flawed

“It’s okay to be fabulous and flawed.”

Dove Wrapper

I don’t think anyone would tell you that it’s not okay to be fabulous. At least that is not the message that we are getting: magazines tell us how to look fabulous, books write about how to improve who you are to the more fabulous you, television shows us fabulous. It’s all around us in our face and in our ears to be more...more perfect, more beautiful, more put together, more fabulous. Yet, where do we hear that it’s okay to be flawed. I would guess you don’t hear that much. I don’t and I didn’t expect to find it in a dark chocolate wrapper, but there it was speaking truth from a piece of foil. It’s okay. It’s okay to mess up, to be not all put together, to be just who you are, to be flawed. We are humans and not designed to be perfect, so why do we expect ourselves to be perfect? Knowing our design, we are free to be flawed. We are free to be fabulous too, but not expected to be so all the time. Accept what’s true...you are fabulous and you are flawed and it’s okay. Let that be okay for others as well...to be fabulous and flawed. We are fabulous and flawed...it’s okay.

“For he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.”

Psalm 103:14 NIV

God formed us, He knows us. He made us from dust and He remembers that we are fragile as from the dust. Yet, I am not sure that we do. I am not sure that we remember that we are from the dust. We are human which means we are frail, easily broken, and weak. I forget that I was not made to handle great trial, difficult pain, or deep suffering on my own. It is only by God that I am enabled to bear what my frame was not created to endure. Now this doesn’t mean that we are to wallow in our worthlessness, but to put off our worthlessness onto Him, the One who makes us worthy. It is to find freedom in knowing you weren’t created to be fabulous all the time, but to see how flawed you are without Him. He knows you are formed from dust, but He takes you, breathes life into you and calls you fabulous. This is freedom knowing you don’t have to be fabulous all the time. Even God doesn’t expect you to act perfect all the time. The pressure is off. So why are you expecting yourself to be perfect if God doesn’t? You are free to be flawed and free to fabulous in Him. It’s more than okay, it’s free.