March 16

Psalm 51 Verse 5: And so you are justified when you speak and upright in your judgment.

Are any of  us willing to own up to our offenses? I find so many people in the public eye seem to be oblivious to how their words are hurting others. Most of the offensive language comes from politically oriented pundits who exclaim the rightness of their point of view and just how wrong the opposite view is. We have lost our sense of fairness and we do not dialogue as much as we should. What has happened to civility? We have so much for which to be grateful and should have little about which to complain. But humans are ingrained with self-serving attitudes which limit our true abilities. We have talents we sublimate purposefully because we do not want to appear egocentric. Or we push our talents to the forefront and boast. All we need to be is grateful, and sharing our abilities for the betterment of all of humanity. What happens to us will be our reward, justified in the eyes of God, but not necessarily what we want for ourselves. I pray for myself that God will be kind and my judgment will be upright in my mind.