Begin your step of a thousand miles with your best foot forward and with the Lord.

Veritas

 

Veritas initium sapientiae.

 

If you look for fault in everyone, you will find it in anyone.  

Why?  

Because people are not perfect and perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.  

Perhaps, begin with yourself.  

How is your eye? 

Perfect?  

20/20?

How's your foresight? 

Perfect?

Let's try something easier.

How's your hindsight? 

Devoid of biases and imperfections, full of integrity and honesty?

Even when there is no fault, an innocent person can be crucified as Christ was by the Judases believing themselves to be always right and the power to change the world in their image the only thing that mattered.

And were the Judases right?  

This Easter, before we can resurrect ourselves in the image of Jesus Christ, we need to take a good look at ourselves; especially, before casting stones at everybody and ask:  

Should we be casting stones at everyone or anyone at all?

Unread

Instead of purity of heart, 

You have purity of skin 

Which isn't anything 

You can take with you in the end.

But, you insist and persist 

On making the superficial

The all and end all 

Of your existence- hence

You make your appearance

Your deliverance

And judge every book by 

Your book cover;

And those covers that don't please 

Are trashed, 

Smashed and mashed,

Then thrown over without a glance.

Its pages ungleaned,

Its knowledge deferred

And interred- 

Hence

What's transferred?

What is learned?

Not a thing.

For its pages,

Remain unknown,

Still 

Unread through the ages.

What is lost?

Who's to say?

What the contents are 

under the cover. 

What you get is 

What you give;

Therefore, 

All you have-

Are just book covers

Covering dust in the end. 

 

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."*

                            - Lao Tzu

A single step in the wrong way, can lead to a lifetime of regrets.  

What can cause so many of our missteps and regrets?

One failed test of character, one walk of shame, a thousand miles journey in the wrong way, a lifetime away from love and peace and the Lord.  

Before you begin your journey check your conscience, your compass.  

Are you headed for salvation? 

Is your character in line and compatible with the Holy Spirit?

On any given day, are you prepared for the Lord's Judgement?