"He knows that if you see rightly, the actions and behavior will eventually take care of themselves." -- Fr. Richard Rohr, Daily Meditation, June 18, 2014
My eyebrows-up take on that: We learn that if we see rightly, the actions and behavior that we are bad-mouthing in others will eventually take care of themselves. We do not have to "set them straight" thereby planting the seeds for our next apology, our next amends.
There's a reason I reread the above this morning...I'd written it in my journal, and this morning, in a similar situation, I'm arm wrestling with God over my ego's need to chew 'em a new one, set 'em straight, make 'em sorry...and we (my ego and I) are justified.
A very many years ago, in a similar situation (!), God spoke in my ear and said, "Be very, very leery when you are rigid, righteous and right, and you know you are justified. There is never a good outcome for you there."
Thank you.
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