Mr. Bean

The other day I watched Mr.Bean. It was one of my favorite shows as kid. In one of the episodes that I watched the Queen was coming to visit. So, there was a line of people all ready to greet the Queen. And Mr. Bean was in the line. He was tidying himself up before the Queen came. He made sure his shirt was tucked in and that his nails were clean. Than he started to notice that all the men had hankercheifes in the pockets of their jackets. So, Mr.Bean tried to find one to put in his pocket. And the process of Mr.Bean getting ready to meet the Queen took awhile and than she finally came in and he was all prepared and looking all nice and than when she came to him he accidently butted her in the head and she fell to the ground.

I recently have been feeling the way that Mr.Bean felt. Like I was going to meet the Queen, but I didn't look nice enough and I had stuff in my teeth and my shirt was untucked. I saw that everyone else looked nice so I tried to make myself look as nice, but in the end I butted the Queen in the head any way. It is like we think that we aren't good enough and because of our imperfections and we think that God is going to lose His love for us. He is going to shake everyone elses hand, but walk right by us. We compare ourselves to others and see that we aren't the same and that they some how are "better".

Yesturday I was talking to someone about how I haven't been having the best week of my life. And they turned to me and said 'Meghan you know that God loves you. Every part about you. You do not need to change anything about yourself because God loves you how you are.' And I than thought about how I had been trying in some way perfect myself by looking at all the negative stuff rather than looking at the stuff that is good and rejoicing in that. It is hard to see that God loves us with all these imperfections. And we want so badly to look nice for Him. I have realized that I could fix everything that I can see and look all spify, but in the end still butt the Queen in the head.

Grace,
Meghan