David Roche is the pastor of the Church of 80% Sincerity. He has a severe facial deformity that people don't notice so much after he speaks for a while and they get over the shock of it and see his radiance. He says that people with facial deformities wear their shadow on the outside whereas the rest of us wear it on the inside.

"We in the Church of Eighty Percent Sincerity do not believe in miracles," he said. "But we do believe that you have to stay alert, because good things happen. When God opens the door, you've go to put your foot in. Eighty Percent Sincerity is about as good as it's going to get. So is Eighty Percent compassion. Eighty Percent celibacy. So twenty percent of the time, you just get to be yourself."

I love the way Roche cuts you slack for not being perfect. We're all on the road called "trying." We're "trying" to live a life of 100% sincerity and when we fall short it's not so serious. He takes the smugness out of sincerity.

Writer Anne Lamott says, "In the Church of 80% Sincerity, you definitely don't have to look good, but you are supposed to meditate.