Remove the Beam

In Matthew 7:2-3

Jesus delivered a Sermon

that would serve

me well today.

3 And why beholdest thou the MOTE that is in thy brother’s eye, 

but considerest not the BEAM that is in thine own eye?

4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, 

Let me pull out the MOTE out of thine eye;

 and, behold, a BEAM is in thine own eye?

The whole BEAM - MOTE idea 

reminds me of a story

I heard long ago:

A young couple had moved into a new neighborhood. 

The first morning, while they were eating breakfast, 
the young woman observed the neighbor hanging up the wash outside.

"That laundry is not very clean," she said, 

"she doesn't know how to wash correctly. 

Perhaps she needs another laundry soap."

The husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang out the wash, 

the young woman would make the same comment.

About one month later, 
the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband,

"Look! She has learned how to wash correctly. 

I wonder who taught her this?"

Her husband said, "I got up early this morning and washed the windows."

And so it is with life: 

What we see while watching others depends

 on the purity of the window 

through which we look through.

It is especially difficult to see truth,
when objects in the distort
reality.

REMOVE THE BEAM