Day 68 ~ How Do We View Each Other?

What do we see about each other?

Are your windows clean or dirty?

~President Thomas S. Monson

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Each of You Is Unique
My dear sisters, each of you is unique. You are different from each other in many ways. There are those of you who are married. Some of you stay at home with your children, while others of you work outside your homes. Some of you are empty-nesters. There are those of you who are married but do not have children. There are those who are divorced, those who are widowed. Many of you are single women. Some of you have college degrees; some of you do not. There are those who can afford the latest fashions and those who are lucky to have one appropriate Sunday outfit. Such differences are almost endless.

Do these differences tempt us to judge one another?

Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who worked among the poor in India most of her life, spoke this profound truth:

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

The Savior has admonished,

“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.”

I ask: Can we love one another, as the Savior has commanded, if we judge each other?

And I answer—with Mother Teresa—“No; we cannot.”
~President Thomas S. Monson

Tonight I was able to attend the General RS Meeting for the women of my church. Boy! Have I been spiritually fed! I want this next week to whiz by so that I can listen to what is on the Lord's mind through our current leaders.

Tonight I was reminded "Judge Not!" As President Monson talked to us about this tender subject, there is much repentance needed on my part. Some days are so easy, but it is those "other" days that get to me and kneeling is in order. I am grateful for this reminder, because I definately don't like to be judged.