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Are impossible expectations stealing your joy? Do you spend your days comparing, complaining and worrying you\u2019ll never be enough for anyone\u2014even God? <\/p>\n

If so, you may suffer from spiritual perfectionism, a fixation on flawlessness rooted in the belief that we can earn God\u2019s love. It drives a toxic cycle of pride, sin, shame, blame and despair that dulls our faith and leads us to view others through the same hypercritical lens we think God is using to view us.<\/p>\n

The good news: We\u2019re not the first to fight this battle. Countless believers fought it before us, even canonized saints. And one of their best weapons was joy. From Paul of Tarsus to Benedict of Nursia and Francis of Assisi, the recovering perfectionist saints all took seriously those words from Scripture, \u201cthe joy of the Lord is your strength\u201d (Neh 8:10). Here are three lessons they taught me about cultivating joy<\/a> in daily life: <\/p>\n

1. Don\u2019t compare and despair: <\/strong>Our social media age tempts us constantly to measure ourselves by the flawless personas others project online. Don\u2019t take the bait. Those shiny, happy images we see are only one carefully curated sliver of reality, not the full picture. And while we\u2019re gawking at someone else\u2019s callings and blessings, we\u2019re missing our own. Francis of Assisi<\/a> cautioned his followers not to compare themselves to anyone, even him: \u201cI have done what was mine to do. May Christ teach you what is yours.\u201d It was good advice in his day; it\u2019s still good in ours.<\/p>\n

2. Make time for joy. <\/strong>There\u2019s a saying attributed to Corrie Ten Boom: If the devil can\u2019t make us bad, he makes us busy. So many of us today are crazy busy, wearing ourselves out doing all those good works we believe are God\u2019s will for us. But what if an equally important part of God\u2019s will\u2014a bigger part than most of us perfectionists realize\u2014is that we make time each day for joy? Scripture commands us to \u201crejoice in the Lord\u201d even in barren times (Hab. 3:18) and \u201crejoice and be glad\u201d in His gifts (Ps. 118:24). For saint Teresa of \u00c1vila<\/em>, following that directive looked like dancing on the tables to cheer up long-faced nuns. For me, it looks like blowing off my to-do list to ride bikes with my kids or scheduling an impromptu midweek date night with my husband. If joy is \u201cthe serious business of heaven,\u201d as C.S. Lewis said<\/a>, then cultivating it needs to be our business, too.<\/p>\n

3. Get offline and outside: <\/strong>It\u2019s easier to make time for joy and avoid the comparison trap when we\u2019re not living in a virtual world. Omnipresent screens may be a new phenomenon, but even saints from centuries past struggled with distraction. To refresh their souls and renew their focus, most of them made time each day for prayer and recreation, for reconnecting with God in silence and in the beauty of His creation. Recovering perfectionist saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se of Lisieux explained some of her most memorable spiritual lessons using truths she encountered in nature. Francis of Assisi based his famous \u201cCanticle of the Sun\u201d on his vision of nature as a love poem written for each of us, one in which every marvel we see shouts the Creator\u2019s goodness. Imagine what the world would have missed had these people of strong faith spent all their time distracted by screens, oblivious to God\u2019s wonders around them\u2014and within them.<\/p>\n

Cultivating joy is the work of a lifetime and can bring peace to the hearts of recovering perfectionists like me. Even better, it prepares us for the perfect joy of that encounter with God at life\u2019s end, when \u201cyour hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you\u201d (John 16: 22).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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