At Holy Mass this morning, Father LeRoy read from the Gospel of St. Luke where Jesus said, “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?” and about the splinter and the wooden beam.
On our walk home, Sister Mary Claire explained it to me. She said Jesus wants us to stop worrying so much about the little splinters in other people’s eyes, and instead notice the big wooden beams in our own. If we don’t, then we can’t really see rightly. Once the beam is taken out of our own eye, then we can help others with kindness, the way Jesus does.
It made me think how easy it is to notice a small splinter in someone else but forget to look at myself first. I want to try harder to see with clear eyes, not blind ones.
Evening Prayer
Dear Jesus, thank You for today’s Gospel and for Sister Mary Claire helping me understand it. Please help me take away the beams from my own eyes so I can see others the way You do. Keep me from judging too quickly and guide me to be gentle and kind. Watch over our home and all the people in our town tonight. Amen.
Love,
Kathy
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