Be Perfect

In this episode, I’m reflecting on what it really means to take a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves. Borrowing from the fourth step of recovery, I invite us to look honestly into the “kitchen of our soul” and ask what’s really cooking inside of us. If we want to live lives rooted in love, we have to face the places where anger, resentment, or hatred might still be burning within us.

Too often in religious spaces we become experts at taking other people’s moral inventory while ignoring our own. But the invitation of Jesus is something far more demanding and far more beautiful: love your enemies. That kind of love doesn’t come from bumper-sticker spirituality. It comes from deep inner work, from examining ourselves honestly so we stop projecting our own brokenness onto the world around us.

I explore what Jesus meant when he said, Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect. This isn’t about flawless performance, it’s about setting our sights on the far horizon of love. When our aim is love, it reshapes how we see enemies, neighbors, and even ourselves. The work of faith becomes less about condemning others and more about transforming our own hearts.

At the end of the day, the revolution I’m talking about is simple but demanding: a life devoted to love alone. That means breathing in love, letting go of fear and retribution, and learning to say the three words that can turn a life around, I love you. When we commit to that path, we begin to do something beautiful in a world that’s already had far too much ugly.