This morning I came across a BFO note I wrote to me in 1988: "It is not a desire to stop judging others, but a desire to stop feeling judged by others (so I can feel hurt, betrayed...the victim)."
Just a month or so back, I read that Ken Keyes had once said, "More suffering comes into the world by people taking offense than by people intending to give offense."
So 25 years before I read a quote from someone I'd never heard of, I had a blinding flash of the obvious saying virtually the same thing, and yet that quote was like big-time news to me.
Here is my grateful example of time takes time for I know that I have not been oblivious to that 1988 BFO all these years. I know because I do remember specific times when I pulled myself back from judging another and opened my heart and mind in a desire to understand the person I was judging...and did get understanding and release.
Which, when I think about it, is using my reasoning mind as it needs to be used...not to justify me (I already agree with me) but to understand you (whom I am resisting).
God is so good to me.
Thank You.
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