Status

Sometimes I am just sitting here in my office and I am over taken with thoughts, deep thoughts. At least I believe they are! I write this with a wide smile and gentle ebb of contentment in the words that pop up almost magically as I firmly tap on my keyboard.

I have flashes of old and new friends and these images roll by like a news ticker has words streaming across its front view. My mind has always worked like this. I was the kid that daydreamed out the window of math class. Often I was reminded that if I didn't get on the ball with it. I would "fail". Remember that folks? The kid the teacher often called aside to have the inspirational academic talk with? The starry eyed kid, was me.
I always had a mind, ticking away with thought of "what if". Fondly I remember often being one of the special kids who just fit in everywhere they wanted to, meaning those few kids who just never saw the great divide between the cool kids, the jocks and the geeks or rockers. If I did I must have totally ignored it and made friends and enemies the old fashioned way. I just didn't care to feed into the your better than me or not, mentality. I liked who I liked and I disliked who I disliked. Actually, back then as a kid, everything was either awesome or it sucked. Right?
Nothing was ok, or right down the middle. My life has been such a journey, since then. In spite of, because of and as a result of- I turned out to be pretty wonderful. Of course I realize I like anyone else, has flaws. Someone once told me, God, created you perfect. It always stuck with me. When we were born, we were made perfect. Spiritually. Most of us naturally perceive that saying as meaning physically perfect right? When we were born, we were all physically "perfect". Examine that for a few minutes. Does that make sense? Physically perfect? Why then, are some born with physical defects?
I kept rehearsing this in my minds eye.. we were all born perfect. At birth we were all perfect. Soon, like some word puzzle the words would fall away from the sentence in my mind leaving one ideal answer for me. We were not all born perfect due to a physical status. We are born perfect spiritually. Moreover, we were born in the image of GOD. Spiritually perfect.
What really happens to us from there on in... is a combination of things. Some become who we were meant to be, others become less than their potential and others exactly the opposite. We create our status, to a certain extent. So I believe the real question is what can you do to change your status?