Life's experiences with people and institutions teach us daily that we live in an imperfect world. Indeed, we don't have to go much further than our nose to realize that as part of the human race, we too lack the perfection we seek to impose on ourselves or on others. Would that the world would be a tidy place, where everyone is on time, where meetings are short and to-the-point, where it rains only at night, or where I accomplish everything according to the time-line in my head. Not so, Magee!
The injunction against judging others in today's passage from Luke (6:36-38) begins with a command to be merciful: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." (Lk 6:36). Leave room for the imperfect, be forgiving of self and of others and there will be no room for judging. We are grateful that God's mercy gives us chance after chance, otherwise we would be the first to suffer. As he is merciful to us, so too are we to be to others. There is a Lenten "task". goal, sacrifice, if ever there was one.
Bro. Rene
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