Anna, The Imperfect Vessel

I am an imperfect person allowing God to use me as a vessel. I will use my blog to express my humble thoughts to any one who would like to hear them.

I am imperfect.

There is no perfect person but I have a perfect Savior. He abides in me and I abide in Him (John 15:4). I want to serve Him. I want to share what I have learned about my perfect Savior with you.

My prayer is, “Lord, use me, an imperfect vessel, to bring to others your perfect message”. Amen

Throughout my many years I have come to learn to be alright with not doing everything perfectly. It has been a process. I still want to do everything to the best of my ability but if I waited to try to be perfect in all I do nothing would get done. My poor children, Erica and Christa, were brought up by two imperfect people who tried too hard to be perfect. Richard and I are both first born over achievers. If I thought too hard before writing down my thoughts or decided I couldn’t do this until my grammar, spelling, or sentence structure were perfect, I would not be sitting here typing this now. There is one thing that I have always done well and that one thing is procrastination.

God has taught me that my availability is more important than my ability. Being obedient to God and having His approval is much more important to me than being approved or criticized by my peers, family, friends, or acquaintances.

I love all of you but my first love is The Lord.

I know how to love because He loved me first (1 John 4:19) and (John 3:16).

So, “Here I am Lord, use me!”