Remember that Truth is many-sided. Have much tender Love and Patience for all who do not see as you do. -- "God Calling," March 4
The above is excellent advice for our spiritual growth, and it is also purely practical advice in the walking-around world.
When we marry our self to our own measuring stick for truth in our daily life, to our mind the other person usually comes out wrong at best or a liar at worst. Based on the adage if you can spot it, you got it, we risk not being believed our own self. Holding others to our standard for truth gives others permission to hold us to their standard for truth. Makes liars of us all.
The fundamentalist folk, those some of us pejoratively think of as the piously rigid, righteous and right, are quite honestly the least of the daily offenders. If we constantly become upset with their rigidity, there is something wrong with us. It is not rigidity to them, and if we don't buy it, why carry on like we have? Walk on by.
The practicality of remembering that truth has many sides is that it frees our own mind of the need to constantly measure and judge the words of others. I have a friend who says she does not lie, she's just a great storyteller...and she is. And marvelously funny into the bargain. There. That's God in a giggle.
Thank you.
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