A favorite story I read once is about a teacher (American or Brit~) in China teaching Chinese children. Getting warmed up for class, looked out the window, saw pigeons in the distance.
He asked young girl, are those your father's pigeons?
She said, "Can't tell. It's too far away."
What I draw from this is the observation that we are often, too often, making definitive judgements on people,
- What they think,
- What their motives are,
- We categorize them:
- "THEY are all xxxxx" because we read it on a web page, we read a meme, we drank from the firehose of a politician or real estate guy who said it over and over (the repetition increases belief).
We bear false witness when we promulgate something alarming that just happens to go along with our emotional belief, without sufficient challenge.
We would be closer to what the Lord would have if we read the deeper stuff, considered more deeply, understood the area, circumstances, environment that someone is working from. Simply know more, not live in the dark.
Read deeper stuff. Skip the dromine stimulators. Reach out, ask none-challenging questions, learn.
Grow your mind. (Did you know that when you do that, you somewhat counter that alzheimer thing that is so devastating?)
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