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Mirroring

“Sowing judgement for judgement” is a phrase a friend used in conversation many years ago. It’s one I’ve thought of a great many times since then – when I either watch or find myself in situations where that is the temptation. You know the ones… Where instead of going a distance beside the other, to discover what they think and why, we arc against something and often never are aware that all we’ve done is mirror judgement back. Love when what seems like a throwaway comment impacts both thought and action so deeply.

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The friendship of anger

I know there is good anger. Right anger. Necessary anger.

BUT ~ Anger is a common and quick false friend. This kind is a deceiver, a weight and a fog.

It obscures vision, weights thought in one’s favour, and justifies more action in anger.

Always? No, but probably more often than we care to admit.

Get out of the cloud – look clearly.

Smash the fake scales – judge fairly.

Build ~ don’t rip.

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To judge or not to judge?

It’s not such a simple question!

A number of years ago I did a book display at a super ‘conservative’ Christian rally.  I’d recently spent a number of years prior to that in a Pentecostal church but I’d attended the same rallies by the same conservative group as a small child with my parents.  I stood there awash in The Fathers love and a sense of His presence and joy with the memory of being a toddler in that very auditorium and I knew the same joy I felt in the Pentecostal style worship was because it was the same Holy Spirit who was in each place.  Neither set of beliefs governing style had everything right, but the Holy Spirit, by God’s grace, was present in both.  He was there when I was a toddler in that auditorium, He was there in the Pentecostal church and He was there again that night.

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