The Splinter and the Log
Monday, 12th week in Ordinary Time
2 Kgs 17: 5-8, 13-15,18; Mt 7: 1-5
Judging someone is totally unChristian says the Word today. Seeing a splinter or a log depends on also how close we are when we look at it. We can make a log of a splinter, or we can make a splinter of a log...what matters is not what we judge some one to be, but the very act of judging. It is against love and I cannot but recall Mother Teresa's perfect summary of God's loving mercy: when we judge we have stopped loving!