“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”- Kahlil Gibran
Can I Judge You?
How can I judge you
when I don’t even know you?
How can I judge another
if I do not even know who I am?
All I have are clues
All I have are rumors
All I have are sketches
But sketches do not define who we are.
How I’d like to say things
based on what I see
based on what I believe to be true
but how little I see the truth!
I therefore withhold my judgment
and replace it with my many doubts,
I lift up my complaints to Him
who knows you as you really are.
I cast upon Him my heart’s burden
and all the things I cannot see
I believe in His love and In His Justice
And He will judge between you and me.
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? -James 4, WEBBE
The thing about hope is that it’s a positive force that shines the most when it’s dark. When everything’s going well, we hardly notice it’s there. But when things go against us, when our dreams fade and when we see no immediate reprieve from our troubles, that’s when hope does its best work for us.
"Where Hope Can Be Found"