Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
Matthew 7:3
Every time I think I am ready to start talking about the next step of Theresa’s Plan to Save the World, something pops up. Yesterday I was told some sad news about someone I have been judging quite a bit over the last few months. It really doesn’t matter what I was thinking and, I’m sad to admit, saying about this person—the only thing that matters is that I was judging.
When I heard the sad news, everything fell into place about how this person was behaving. First, I cried for the person; then, I cried in repentance for my words and thoughts. As I have said before, everything is either an extension of Love or a cry for Love and healing. My response to the person’s behavior was judgment. Like the queen in Alice in Wonderland, I was screaming, “Off with their head!”
Learning everything that happened helped trigger a profound change in my thinking, or should I say stinkin’ thinkin’. I became profoundly aware of the depths of my judgment—even labeling whole groups. We all have felt that group labeling. In high school, you might have been labeled as a jock or a pothead. Depending on your beliefs you might see one as bad and the other as good.
After this realization, I was taken even deeper. This is hard to find the words for, but I wish to try. I realized by judging anyone, I was judging myself. How could that be? I came to a deeper realization that we are all One.
We see ourselves as separate, but are we? If God is the sun and we are beams of light radiating from the sun, we are all part of the sun and therefore part of each other. We are all here, learning and growing. Our Mimis (egos) want to control, and when we judge, that is what we are judging, the Mimis. Yet that is not who we are—we are pure spirit living a human experience. We are learning to help Mimi to come into alignment with our true nature. Mimi was never meant to be the driver but the helper.
By judging, I help create what I see. We are always creating. We cannot help it—that is who we are. There is a problem when we let Mimi create because Mimi doesn’t understand that we are co-creators. God is the creator. Mimi wants to think she/he is the creator. Mimi does not want to extend Love, she is all out for herself/himself. By responding in judgment, I was saying to the Universe, “I am not interested in peace”.
Today, I commit to Loving thoughts and actions. Today, I choose to stay present and listening to my thoughts and actions, and when I hear judgment, I choose to have another thought, to put on another pair of glasses. Today, I choose to extend Love. Thank you for your time.
Theresa Contaxis 