To Be Idealistic

If you believe in people just as they are, you condemn them. If you are idealistic and aim higher, you will help them become what they are made to be. So says the legendary psychiatrist Viktor Frankl in a clip recently added to TED:Best of the Web.

Isn't that what Jesus tells us- Be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect.Or this one on this week before Pentecost:

May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. "Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world. "Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them."

Talk about aiming high. Talk about meaning and purpose. Talk about making humans what they were meant to be- the image of God.