For the record, James and I celebrate our wedding anniversary today. Yes, the years have gone fast, the physical body is showing its toil, with receding hairline and extended waistline, not to mention wrinkles! Still we are soul-mates, a union made in Heaven 39 years ago in Sheffield, England.
Judging
The conjecturing about whether Jesus was a prophet or the Christ continue in today's Gospel (Jn 7:40-53). The chief priests and Pharisees were eager to have Jesus arrested. Only one upright man, Nicodemus spoke up, and asked whether it was right to pass judgement on a man before giving him a hearing? His brave question did not go well with his peers who were intent on killing Jesus.
When we judge a person, it is always based on an assumption or hear-say, or even on the exterior appearance of the person. We know very little of their lives or virtues, yet we label them. It can only stem from our being insecure, or the ego, or envy; but we must know that each time we judge, we lose our sense of goodness, of probity, of trust in a friendship.
This Lent, let us be more conscious of not judging people; I find a good way of doing this exercise is to remember (Luke 6: 37), that the yardstick we use to judge others will be used to judge us when we meet our Creator. It is a powerful reminder that we should love more and will others good.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside
its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it
treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
- Nelson Mandela-
When we judge a person, it is always based on an assumption or hear-say, or even on the exterior appearance of the person. We know very little of their lives or virtues, yet we label them. It can only stem from our being insecure, or the ego, or envy; but we must know that each time we judge, we lose our sense of goodness, of probity, of trust in a friendship.
This Lent, let us be more conscious of not judging people; I find a good way of doing this exercise is to remember (Luke 6: 37), that the yardstick we use to judge others will be used to judge us when we meet our Creator. It is a powerful reminder that we should love more and will others good.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside
its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it
treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
- Nelson Mandela-
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