Mirror Mirror

Jesus said to his disciples: "Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. "Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you." (Luke 6:36-38)

This is quite a string of commands.  Essentially, they mean for us to look in our mirrors.  What do we see?  A merciful, non-judgmental person, or one who condemns others and refuses to forgive?

What gifts do we give?  Love and compassion, or stockings of coal symbolizing the coldness we may hold in our hardened hearts?

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?  Best we not see this image.

Deacon David Pierce