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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Judge Not Lest Ye Be Judged

I read this Bible passage with my daughter the other night: 


“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"
Matthew 7:3

Which reminded me of a poem I read a long time ago in school. I tried retelling it from memory and, suffice it to say, she was not impressed. Ah, youth is wasted on the young. 

A portion from Robert Burns' 1786 poem To a Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet, at Church:


O would some Power the gift to give us
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!

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