Monday, November 27, 2006
I Send Love To Those I've Judged
If someone does not measure up to our standards or meet our expectations we may judge that person as being inadequate or wrong. Yet if each person's standards are different, based on his or her life and experience, then whose perception is correct, and what is adequate, what is right? To judge another is not to accept that person or see him as he truly is. As we judge another so will we judge ourselves.
A Course In Miracles says: "Judgement, therefore, is a patent failure at the two things it claims to deliver. It claims to reveal truth, but instead yields subjective, self-made illusions. It claims to protect us from our pain, but it is the cause of our pain. After a lifetime of judging, we are left feeling lonely, empty and guilty."
Are there others in your life whom you have judged and pushed away? Is it possible to offer this person or people love and compassion, given the truth that we are all connected and that each person is doing the best she can? If you find yourself judging another, try, instead, to see the innocent child in that person.
