What Good Can Come?

What good can come by looking for the faults in others that we see?
We each have faults enough to keep us busy, you and me.
When we put someone down, to lift us up, we ourselves fall  from our place.
Let us lift the weak & poor, sick & sore, and receive the Lord's sweet Grace.

The words of Christ burn in each heart, who tries to understand.
"First take the beam from our eye, then a sliver from our fellow man."
"Judge not that we be not judged", helps keep us from pride's way.
"For as we judge, we shall be judged," are words to live, not just to say.

Sometimes when others hate us and strive to do us harm,
We strive to protect ourselves from false judgement that can harm.
The sin comes when we don't forgive the trespass of their deeds.
What good is there to hold a grudge?  Forgiveness, we each need.

When someone judges others on what they understand,
We each are like an ice burg; the tip is small to comprehend.
Yet each of us have depths below that others do not see.
We each can try to see the good another may not see.

Jeanne

Born in southern Idaho. Attended Brigham Young University. Worked as a transfusion service medical technologist at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah for 45 years. Married Robert & have 3 children, 7 grandchildren.

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