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Bob: Let us tend to them when we have completed the lesson today. Is that fine? (Yes.) Thank you. Other questions related to the [[perfection]] of God?

Bob: Let us tend to them when we have completed the lesson today. Is that fine? (Yes.) Thank you. Other questions related to the [[perfection]] of God?

Student: You said in the beginning, that we shouldn’t think in terms of “nothing is perfect,” that we are doing a disservice to ourselves, as well as to our understanding of God, when we suggest that perfection is not possible. I guess I have never really thought in terms that nothing can be perfect. I think of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflakes snowflakes], for instance, and think of every single one of them as being [[perfection]]. Newborn babies, flowers—so much that we are [[surrounded]] by—[[beauty]]. While everything is different, it is all perfect in and of itself. The only things I think of as being imperfect are perhaps things that happen between people [[interacting]] with one another, often so imperfectly. There is nothing wrong with thinking in those terms of imperfection, is there?

Student: You said in the beginning, that we shouldn’t think in terms of “nothing is perfect,” that we are doing a disservice to ourselves, as well as to our understanding of God, when we suggest that perfection is not possible. I guess I have never really thought in terms that nothing can be perfect. I think of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflakes snowflakes], for instance, and think of every single one of them as being [[perfection]]. Newborn babies, flowers—so much that we are [[surrounded]] by—[[beauty]]. While everything is different, it is all perfect in and of itself. The only things I think of as being imperfect are perhaps things that happen between people [[interacting]] with one another, often so imperfectly. There is nothing wrong with thinking in those terms of imperfection, is there?

Bob: No, of course not. Babies are perfect; so are snowflakes. And you are very correct in determining that imperfection arises from the [[decisions]], the self-will [[decisions]] of [[individuals]], who do not know perfection. But for those who are conscious of the [[journey]], the attempt to become perfect becomes the ultimate chore, not as a [[competitive]] measurement of yourself against anyone else, but simply, it is your “work” to do. And that leads us into the second part of this lesson, which involves the [[love]] of God.

Bob: No, of course not. Babies are perfect; so are snowflakes. And you are very correct in determining that imperfection arises from the [[decisions]], the self-will [[decisions]] of [[individuals]], who do not know perfection. But for those who are conscious of the [[journey]], the attempt to become perfect becomes the ultimate chore, not as a [[competitive]] measurement of yourself against anyone else, but simply, it is your “work” to do. And that leads us into the second part of this lesson, which involves the [[love]] of God.