“Perfect” (Thin Enough)
“May YHWH complete this on my behalf! O YHWH, Your loving devotion is forever; do not forsake the works of Your hands!”
Psalm 138:8
What is behind perfection?
Virtue? Goodness? Safety?
We often equate thinness with goodness.
And, of course, we can see goodness as perfection.
Why be perfect?
Why?
(Thin Enough Book Excerpt)
…We’d never had any father/daughter talks about anything, much less about the existence of a loving relationship, but I got up the nerve to ask him, “Do you still love me?” His answer? “If you do this again, I won’t.”
His answer proved it. It was my fault. I had to prove myself in order to be loved. I wasn’t the cute, good little daughter he should have had. If I could just look right and act right, he’d love me. All I have to do, I decided, is be perfect. That’s all…
