Judging Others
Love one another …
A good friend of mine came over this week for tea. She began to share a story with me. She said, “I want to tell you about my friend’s vacation. She and her husband took a bike trip down the Natchez Trace (a 444 mile long route that traces through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee). It was really hot that day so what water they did have they went through really fast. My friend was panicking a bit so they went off path to try and find some water. They went into a small town where a man was watering his yard. They were so thankful to see him so they could get some water and get back on their bike trip. They approached him and asked him if they could have some water. He looked at them and asked, “What religion are you?” I said surprised, “He did?” She said, “Yes, he did and my friend’s husband who is a very personable guy smiled and jokingly said, ‘I hope you don’t hold it against us but we’re Catholic’. The guy looked at him and said, ‘at least you’re Christian’ and then gave them the water.” She said, “I couldn’t help but think what the wrong answer would have been and thinking would he have really denied someone water?”
God comes disguised in many ways … many, many ways. Can you see into the Heart of each person or are you seeing the outside and denying someone water? Every living creature requires water to live. Please see others through the eyes of your Heart and not the eyes of your head because the Heart will see what God sees and He Loves all children especially those who go off path looking for water to help them keep going on their journey. Leave the judging to God for it is His to judge not us. Imagine turning God away when He came to you for water. What you have done to the least, you have done to God. Love one another.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
See the Beauty in ALL things …
We have a choice to either add to someone or take away from them. There is a reason and a purpose for each and every person who crosses our path each and every day. And most often, the people critical to our path are disguised so that we can only see them with our Heart (your mind makes you want to run away but your Heart tells you differently). All the preaching in the world doesn’t quite speak as much as a visual. I want to share a link with you that a dear friend of mine sent to me. It is a perfect visual of why we are not to judge a book by its cover EVER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsNlcr4frs4
I cry every time I watch this video, did you see the expressions of people’s faces at the beginning of the video? They instantly formed an opinion because they were seeing with their eyes and not their Heart. The world tried to destroy precious Jonathan with their judgment and rejection but then God sent Charlotte who could see the beauty of who he is, to give him the confidence to bloom and share his beautiful gift with others. What made me cry even more was when Simon tried to separate them but Jonathan saw the value in his connection with Charlotte and wouldn’t let it happen … those are the Hearts we need in our Life and the Hearts that we all need to be.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Don’t judge, Love …
If we want to wear the eyeglasses of judgment then we need to take a good look in the mirror first. On this journey, one of the things I have learned is judgment comes in many different disguises. It comes in the disguise of what seems to be innocent comments like “Why is he/she doing that? I would never do that”. It comes disguised as freedom of speech, “I’m entitled to my opinion”. And the most dangerous of them all is it comes in the disguise of God’s Spirit when only God’s True Spirit is and ever will be the judge.
When judgment is not left in God’s hands and only God’s hands, it becomes one of the biggest evil monsters in this earth sent to divide the people. One of God’s gifts to us is that we hold in our hands the power to remove that evil monster from the land. If we don’t feed it, it will die … please don’t feed it. Don’t dismiss someone because of a label of the world, everything here is meaningless.
To disarm that ugly beast focus on the changes that need to happen within your own heart. We are to walk this earth as living examples of God and until we remove the spec from our own eye, we cannot see clearly to remove it from another. Don’t judge, instead Love one another.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!! :)
Ammie
Building Character …
Each life is a gift and should be celebrated. Remember God made each of us and He does not make mistakes. We are all different for a reason, please don’t lose sight of that in your life or the lives around you. Mistakes bring the gift of Life Lessons. So when a person is going through a lesson you happened to have already learned – encourage them and love them through it, don’t turn your back on them. It’s during those moments they need unconditional Love the most. Or maybe you have made a mistake you never thought you’d make, learn from it and become a better person for having gone through it.
We have all made mistakes … what we do once we’ve made them is what builds character.
Many Blessings to you, with MUCH Love!!!
Ammie :)