[PD-US]The Parable of the Mote and the Beam, by Domenico Fetti, 1619.
Jesus told his disciples a
parable,
“Can a blind person guide a blind person?
Will not both fall into a pit?
No disciple is superior to the teacher;
but when fully trained,
every disciple will be like his teacher.
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s
eye,
but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?
How can you say to your brother,
‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’
when you do not even notice the wooden beam in
your own eye?
You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from
your eye first;
then you will see clearly
to remove the splinter in your brother’s eye.
“A good tree does not bear rotten fruit,
nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.
For every tree is known by its own fruit.
For people do not pick figs from thornbushes,
nor do they gather grapes from brambles.
A good person out of the store of goodness in his
heart produces good,
but an evil person out of a store of evil produces
evil;
for from the fullness of the heart the mouth
speaks.”
Luke 6:39-45
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I sat and listened to these words at Mass last night and there is so much truth in these scriptures, these words. It is so easy for me to see where others fail and I am often blind to my own faults... my own opinions... my own tongue. And this scripture, these words, speak to me. They raise me up to remember that Jesus saw our humanness and didn't condemn it... he spoke to it and told us to be better. Stronger. Kinder. To fix ourselves before we find fault with others.
ReplyDeleteDebby, thank you for this!