Be Merciful

In today's gospel passage, Jesus presents a tall order:  "Be merciful,  just as your Father is merciful."
(Lk 6:36).  He continues with telling us to stop judging.  We cannot be merciful if we are carrying a view of someone that is based simply on appearances.  Everyone has a story, one which we may not know and which may add a different dimension to what appears on the surface.  We need to let go of preconceived notions or opinions if we are to be merciful.  God's mercy is without limit, which we fail to grasp because it far exceeds our capacity to be forgiving, compassionate and merciful.  It is the ideal to which we strive, and attainable only with HIS help. Lent is the ideal time to work on being as merciful as the Father, or in the words of Pope Francis, to be "mercy-ing", making it a verb, an action. Let it be something we DO rather than just talk about.
Bro. Rene