Ep. 275 - Perfectionism and Negligence—How to Avoid Those Two Extremes
The Living Waters Podcast
Living Waters
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | But today a young woman goes on social media and they see the air quote perfected self. |
| 0:06.0 | They see the perfect image with the perfect angle, the perfect filter that's sometimes |
| 0:10.4 | airbrushed and sometimes not even real. |
| 0:15.0 | And they compare themselves to a perception of perfection. |
| 0:20.2 | And they look themselves in the mirror |
| 0:21.7 | and they see, man, I've got these freckles my eyes are this my |
| 0:24.8 | faces that and ultimately here's the worst part when we get sucked into that kind of |
| 0:30.0 | version of perfectionism is that we miss out on the reality that God is the one that |
| 0:36.5 | made you. |
| 0:38.1 | He gave you those freckles. |
| 0:40.0 | He gave you your beauty. |
| 0:42.2 | And that's the saddest part is that when we when we compare ourselves |
| 0:45.0 | in that kind of a way ultimately we're questioning God's workmanship that he made us |
| 0:52.1 | to be something he desires us to be and we're comparing that to a facade, a fake image of perfectionism. Shucks, my fingers hurt. |
| 1:05.0 | First of all, I do want to ask this. |
| 1:16.0 | Shucks. |
| 1:17.0 | Oscar, look it up or Mark, look at up. |
| 1:20.0 | What does Shucks means? |
| 1:21.0 | Is that the proper context? I think it's probably short for a fell |
| 1:25.2 | letter word. It's like the euphem for something that probably you wouldn't mean. |
| 1:28.6 | No, southerners say it all the time. Oh they shouldn't Well they shouldn't. Oh shirks. |
| 1:33.4 | We're going. Oh no you don't want to say that word. No I wouldn't want to stop. |
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