“We are so eager to judge people by their past, and it is not fair. We are what we are now, not an hour ago, and what we are planning, not what we are vainly trying to forget.” -Frank Laubach in Letters by a Modern Mystic (affiliate link below)
I can see now I might as well leave my computer on while I read because I will want to share these things that jump out and touch my heart.
Frank died at age 85 not quite a month after I was born yet as I read these letters he wrote, I cannot help thinking I would have enjoyed his company. This is particularly ironic as I would never seek him, a Christian missionary, out as a friend. As a matter of fact, I would have staunchly avoided him.
I realize how that makes me sound. I am not going to try to justify it. As he said, we judge people and it isn’t fair. How wondrous, though, is it that he follows this by saying we are only what we are now?! Now. Not an hour ago. Not some time in the future. Not anywhere at all in the past. Just right now.
This is a pretty great thing to remember the next time I am mounting that imaginary defense in my head.
Enough for now.