“Same knife stick sheep, stick goat” (Look out for things that happen to others can happen to you too)

Recently, I was entrusted with the responsibility to write from a spiritual space, encouragement for the gay, lesbian community. I unconsciously took that mandate and misused the medium to vent personal/emotional baggage I was subconsciously dragging around. I only became aware of my derailment from purpose after receiving a critique on the commentary that I had drafted.

For a long while I had stood in judgement of people who are mandated to provide spiritual guidance to the masses but somehow tainted such guidance with personal and emotional convictions which instead of fulfilling its purpose creates dogma. “How could they?” I would ask myself. 

“They have been entrusted with the responsibility to uplift and unite people irrespective of colour, class, sexuality or creed. Yet they divide with dogma based on their personal perspectives”, I would reason. When given a similar mandate, however, and without realising it, I too became one of those people I so eagerly judged. Before I knew it the same ‘knife of judgement’ which I pointed at my offenders became the same knife that stuck me.

The lesson for me in all this is, and I hope will be for you as well, be careful of the judgements we make of others, as they are merely our own subconscious baggage that we projected onto them. Before we become judgemental of anyone or experience lets choose to take an objective position. 

Let’s resist the need to be right and instead empathise with the experiences of others and process before being quick to judge. The Hebrew text, The Holy Bible, reminds us, “Judge not, less ye be judged”. Sounds familiar? “Same knife stick sheep, stick goat”.

Prayer Treatment

Father/Mother God/Christ within I now surrender all. I surrender all thoughts, all beliefs, all feelings and emotions, all experiences and judgements and perceptions formed by them. I surrender any seeming control of the circumstances, conditions including the lives of others; knowing that God is in control. I surrender all to the perfecting presence and power of the abundant now and all is well in all our lives, world and body of affairs.
It is so and so it is.

Amen