It is always a mistake not to close one's eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself. --Maurice Maeterlinck
It is easy to look outward and find faults with the world and people around us. We criticize family members or complain about our friends. We always notice disease in the trees around us.
But if we take time to be quiet, to sit alone in a tree or by a lake, we become more aware of how connected we are to the life around us. We are part of the beauty and the imperfection. When we notice our own tree is not perfect, it becomes easier to forgive the blights of those around us. It is also important to forgive ourselves our faults. Though all the trees are beautiful, they each have their scars. Being human means we are, like all humanity, both beautiful and imperfect.
Will I see through the flaws to another's beauty today?
I had just Posted a response to this, and it was a long one, and I lost it, my PC, is having some major growing pains, and so because it is now 7:05 am, and have to get my life started, I will write later.
Maybe my Post will show up somewhere where it does not belong, HaHa, that would be a laugh.
Have a good day, and this was an excellent Post, lots of thinking material.
I am so glad to know that I'm not perfect and God has given me His grace. So today I chose to forgive others and give them the same grace that was given me.
