Today’s gospel reading from Matthew (7: 1-5) reminds us to “stop judging.” Jesus reminds us to remove the wooden beam from our eyes before we attempt to remove the splinter from our neighbor’s eye.
Let’s reflect on this a little. In order to remove something from our eye, we must look into a mirror. With the help of the reflection from the mirror, we are able to locate the foreign object and remove it from our eye.
Mirrors are unforgiving objects. Their reflection is always honest. As a result we see ourselves without the benefit of self improvement like make-up, hair-do, or a neat close shaved face.
I invite you to look into the mirror and look really close. Look into your eyes where you find the opening to the inside of yourself. Use the mirror to see that part of you. Notice what you find. Notice how you feel. Get to know the person in the mirror. Does the person in the mirror have a good relationship with God? Does the person in the mirror have a good relationship with self? With others?
Allow your mirror vision to examine your relationships? How are they? Need a little improvement? Is there something you can do for someone? Is there something you can do for God?
Maybe we need to do that more often---that is look into the mirror. If we looked into the mirror, and saw ourselves perhaps we would not judge others harshly. The quickness to judge others would be hastened by the person in the mirror.
Go ahead. Take a look.
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