Work In Progress

From Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber:

“[W]hat we celebrate in the saints is not their piety or perfection but the fact that we believe in a God who gets redemptive and holy things done in this world through, of all things, human beings, all of whom are flawed….  I keep making mistakes, even the same ones over and over.  I repeatedly attempt (and fail) to keep God and my fellow humans at arm’s length.  I say no when I should say yes.  I say yes when I should say no.  I stumble into holy moments not realizing where I am until they are over.  I love poorly, then accidentally say the right thing at the right moment without even realizing it, then forget what matters, then show tenderness when it’s needed, and then turn around and think of myself way too often….  I simply continue to be a person on whom God is at work.”

Flawed, of course, but that last line is the clincher.  “I simply continue to be a person on whom God is at work.”