"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves." François Fénelon (1651-1715)
How often I overlook my own sin. God sees the real me.
François Fénelon is my excitement of the day. I discovered him this morning when I was doing my 'other discipline, the one that I do by myself and when I do not have other family members organizing my day. I write in this blog on a thought from the Episcopal Daily Lectionary. I am often struct by the similarities between the general attitude of society now and that prevalent at the times of Isaiah and Amos. I think it must have been similar three hundred years ago too.
We judge others, but not ourselves. We think that our way s right and that God approves of our behaviour.
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