Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the

word, prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to

just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Okay, all you

one enneagrams out there, I might be messing with you a little today. The truth is, I'm messing with me

a little today, too, because I have some of those sort of always want to get it right, walk into the room and see what needs to be fixed rather than what is going well kind of tendencies.

I'm not really talking to the one eneagrams today. I'm teasing about that. I'm actually talking to all of us in some way that suffer from the dreaded, I need to do this perfect syndrome.

And I'm going to tell you why I think we mostly do it

and what helps me get over it the most. I'll be right back to dive in. I wrote goodness back in 2008,

now a book called Behind Those Eyes, what's Really Going On Inside the Souls of Women,

about the roles women play, and I listed the four main ones I believe we most struggle with,

misconfidence, miss happiness, miss spirituality, and yes, misperfection.

Misperfection is that woman who at least on the surface appears to have it all together.

You know the type.

And it's not that she does have it all together, but it's the perception.

And many times I think it's the wanted perception, or at least the thing the perfectionist on some level strives for.

Whether we care if someone thinks we're perfect or not, we at least want it to be completely perfect and ordered for us so we can sleep while at night.

And look, I'm not here to dive into all the psychological reasons for that.

Good grief. We've tackled some hard things in the last two days on the show.

But for this show, I want us to talk about just some core human level reasons I think we get caught up

in trying to be too perfect about things. I think often we want people to find us worthy or

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