Mother Teresa once said, “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
People may not always act the way we would or believe they should in a given situation, but if we give them (as we'd hope they would us) the benefit of the doubt and go forward in love, we have hurt no one, and allow them to pass through that irregular moment unharmed and (better yet) loved unconditionally. We may be puzzled by the actions of others, but we've no right to judge and act upon our own assumptions. When we assume someone's motives or thoughts, we've trespassed into area where we don't belong, for "...[God] alone know[s] the hearts of all the sons of man." (1 Kings 8:39b)
Simply, we all have moments where we act out of our own woundedness and wound another and vice versa. That's why we have not been called to judge, but rather to love. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31)
With no greater commandment than those, I'd say love should be our rule as we walk through this day. Remember, there may be someone particularly wounded today who needs you to act in love.
God bless you day mightily - do it with love.
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