We find no difficulty seeing the "speck" in our brother's "eye" (behavior) and can go on for hours deriding him in our minds or publicly, while failing to see even grosser faults in our own behavior, (cf. Mt 7:5). Just seems to be the way things are and have been even before the time of Jesus. Both the specks (or splinters) and the beams come with the territory of being human, and can be the occasion for growth. When turned around, our greatest faults can be our greatest gifts, our greatest weaknesses, our greatest strengths. All work to the good, if we admit them, and allow God to teach us through them, to lead us through conversion and transform them as we replace a crumbling bedroom wall with new sheetrock and fresh paint. Rather than compare and compete splinters and beams, let's welcome them and use them to rebuild a better self.
Bro. Rene
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