Jane Ehrich

How often do we judge others based on our preconceptions or instinctive reactions based on years of conditioning?   I have something that I cut out and saved which reminds me about the importance of starting each day with prayer and meditation.  Let us take time each morning so that we can be more mindful and remember that we’re all in this together, and we do not know enough about anyone’s life to make judgments.

Here’s the article that I hope helps you to look at things a little differently today.

Remember to think this…

Help us to remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children…

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, dis-interested young man who can’t make change correctly is a worried 19-year-old college student, balancing his apprehensions over final exams with his student loans for next semester…

Remind us, Lord, that the scary looking bum, begging for money in the same spot every day (who really ought to get a job!) is a slave to addictions that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares…

Help us to remember that the old couple walking annoyingly slow through the store isles and blocking our shopping progress are savoring this moment, knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week, this will be the last year that they go shopping together…

Heavenly Father, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us, the greatest gift is love.  It is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear.  Open our hearts not just to those who are close to us, but to all humanity…

Let us be slow to judge and quick to forgive, show patience, empathy and love.

I wish you Love in your Heart, Peace in your soul, and Miracles in your life…
Namaste’
Jane

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