I am leery of those who are so averse to gossiping that they will cut someone down publicly if they feel that one is gossiping, i.e., judging.
Not all judging is gossip, not all gossip is ill-willed...in my humble opinion. Being rigid, righteous and right, though...needs an in-depth in-self makeover before it can be dressed up and walked about. Probably because, face it, rigid, righteous and right is a self-determined objective straight up.
Apparently, I am incapable of not judging, so I judge freely today...mentally. If my judgments need airing or upgrading, I have my mentor and one or two others I feel free to talk with. And when, not if, I slip and run my mouth out loud indiscriminately, almost without fail I get snookered by that very thing I'm judging. Ah, quick as a bunny rabbit, I'm brought back to my lesson learned: I have a choice...I can either laugh at me or laugh with me.
That being a humbling choice, I am reminded of a long-ago blinding flash of the obvious: Humiliation is humility aborning...probably why nobody searches for humility on purpose.
I wonder if that isn't the forever truth...nobody consciously searches for the God-gift because of the self-invited mud we must walk through to get it. Yet it always and all ways turns out to be the pearl beyond price.
Thank you.
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