Recently, I found a blinding flash of the obvious that I had and had written down : "Living the Sermon cannot be discerned by those who live in their heads...it is taken for weakness, deceit even. In not perceiving purity, phony is ascribed."
At the time, I was in the midst of dealing with a person who was being less than wonderful to me, all but calling me phony to my eyes, and I knew this for my answer. I was released from my itch to respond in kind, and I hugged her. I have never bashed myself about her again, and I choose to believe that she mentally walks free of me.
And then my hard climb began. I realized if that is truth for me it is truth, too, for those whom I am judging...judging as weak and deceitful, in effect.
How do I know he isn't trying to live the Sermon? That her desire isn't to "resist not evil" or "agree with your adversary quickly?"
Or, even more important, how do I know that they don't have a different, better for them, spiritual goal by which they are living? And I am judging as lacking.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
Thank you.
At the time, I was in the midst of dealing with a person who was being less than wonderful to me, all but calling me phony to my eyes, and I knew this for my answer. I was released from my itch to respond in kind, and I hugged her. I have never bashed myself about her again, and I choose to believe that she mentally walks free of me.
And then my hard climb began. I realized if that is truth for me it is truth, too, for those whom I am judging...judging as weak and deceitful, in effect.
How do I know he isn't trying to live the Sermon? That her desire isn't to "resist not evil" or "agree with your adversary quickly?"
Or, even more important, how do I know that they don't have a different, better for them, spiritual goal by which they are living? And I am judging as lacking.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
Thank you.
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