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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
One of the most life-changing letters I ever received was sent to me from a missionary in Guatemala when I was in my early twenties.
I was new in my faith and struggling with questions of judgment and grace and had written to him about it.
His reply to me referenced the Biblical Burning Bush story found in Exodus.
He told me my journey was my own. That I shouldn’t worry about other people and what they did on their journey. That God would reveal to me when I was standing on sacred ground and when it was time to remove my sandals from my feet.
Why is it that when we discover a truth about our own journey, we feel a need to impose it on everyone else? How does our way of doing something suddenly become the right way for everyone else to do it?
~ DIANA’S ENORMOUS BOOK OF QUOTES ~
What would happen if instead of judging and correcting others, we sought solely to be the best version of ourselves?
