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The ego’s judgment-centered programs and fear-based mindset have no control over you —other than the control that you give to them. Knowing this, when other people judge you, say to yourself what a great man once said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Then simply forgive their misperceptions of you. Let go of their judgments of you — and of your judgments of them for judging you. For what could the false concept of judgment possibly be when God is Love, Truth and All? There can be no opposition to Love, which is All. Thus in truth, there can be no such thing as judgment. If in truth, there is no such thing as judgment, then what need would you ever have for it or to defend yourself against it? Judgment of self and others is simply a sign of one who has bought into the ego’s fairy tales as real and thus has temporarily forgotten their true, eternal, loving essence and nature.
Today, let us recall that because God is Love and All, judgment, which the ego places in opposition to Love, cannot be real or true. This makes judgment illusionary in nature. We enhance or diminish an illusion’s effect on our life by how much we believe and focus on it. Today, when a judgmental thought of self or others pops into our mind and demands to be recognized and fed, we simply decline its request to enter by overlooking or forgiving it. If we feel that we are not yet able to do that, then let us visualize handing our pain and anger over to God, and visualize and feel them dissolving before His mercy and light. Then let us pray for those who have judged us or for those whom we have judged. If we cannot yet do that, then let us ask God to do this for us until we can feel and understand the wisdom of His ways.
All glory to God.
Peace, Health, Happiness, Love, Laughter, and Light.
James Blanchard Cisneros
Author of the book “You Have Chosen to Remember”
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Daily Inspiration: April 26. The Illusion of Judgment – Condensed Version.
I appreciate the message, which is especially true to many life experiences when emotions are allowed to rule our senses as we navigate relationships.
Unfortunately not all situations that assault a persons mind and state of peace are so easily dismissed or should be for that matter. As an example, and certainly not even the best example, I will describe an incident for your deliberation.
“On April 1, I learned of a squatter who had begun residence in a building that housed 5 other families. When the officer called to the site and myself confronted the squatter, we learned of a receipt the occupant claimed gave authority for their claim to inhabit the unit. It was clearly a forgery of the signature of the current tenant who had been away for two weeks. I left the property on that day after offering the squatter an opportunity to actually rent an apartment and to correct the situation on both sides. This I believed would solve all issues surrounding the incident being:
1) The individual’s need for housing.
2) The legal occupants need to secure their belongings.
3) My need to provide a safe environment for all tenants by having reasonable
background checks of all inhabitants.
I should add that the offer was made only due the squatter’s representation of wishing to rent an apartment.
It has now been 26 days from the date of learning of the squatters and 39 days since they took up residence in the true tenant’s apartment. There has been no follow thru toward securing an apartment by legal methods. In fact, there are now 2 squatter families occupying the apartment and the other tenants in the building have reported witnessing drug use. The Officer who was to have followed up with an investigation of the forged receipt did not and so no criminal law can be proven as broken and the civil eviction process, which is necessary even in cases of squatters may or may not be successful on May 10th simply due particular rules of the laws of process.”
The above circumstance is condensed however true to the facts. For those of your readers who may have reasons to question my ownership of an apartment building as being the basis for this hardship I would like to add to the facts that I am one of few landlords who purposely secures properties to provide housing for the homeless. The individual who is the legal tenant of the apartment now occupied by squatters was homeless just 9 months ago. He was given an amazing opportunity to have a home and was given all the household furnishings to make it a comfortable one. He is now homeless once again.
My purpose in submitting this comment is to open a discussion that can address real challenges to extending “mercy”. Thank you for the opportunity to respond.
Thank you Patricia for being open to the message.
The ego’s stories can come in a thousand different forms, yet Truth’s response to ‘the story’ is always the same: Do what brings you peace, and you will have peace.
Whenever in doubt, simply stop and go within. Then align with your all-loving Source, walking hand in hand with the state of peace, and allow love to lead the way. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is to forgive. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is to call the cops. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is to allow the squatter to squat. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is to make sure your complex is free from squatters.
The important thing is not ‘what you do or do not do,’ the important thing is to do it/to act from a place of love and peace. This appears to be what you did and are trying to do.
Peace. JBC
I’ve been struggling with anger & bitterness as a result of the pain from the attack of my own sister. I couldn’t forgive her because of her denials. But, this lesson helped me to bring all my pain to God & started visualizing & feeling them desolving before God’s mercy. I am finally relieved!
All glory to God!
God bless you!
Thank you Abeba for being open to the message.
Lovely to hear! May you through your daily example of forgiveness and a greater trust in God, become a light for those who still reside within the darkness.
Understand that the ego usually will not go quietly into the good night. Thus those thoughts of judgment, anger, bitterness and pain when thinking about your sister may pop up again, but now when they do, do not despair. Instead, see such thoughts as an invitation from God to you, asking you to become more forgiving, to trust in Him more, and to become more compassionate thus a brighter light in this world.
When you learn to use even the so-called bad thoughts and emotions for good, to help you grow, heal and awaken, you receive a clear understanding of how God works, of how He can even use all the seeming negatives in our lives to help heal and awaken us and thus world.
When you see that, after all is said and done, what your sister is in reality providing to you is the opportunity to grow, heal, and learn to trust God more, your response to her and her actions will become one of gratitude and appreciation, not judgment and condemnation.
When now gratitude and appreciation take the place of your past judgment and condemnation you will begin to live in alignnment with the states of peace and joy. When peace and joy become your constant companions, gratitude will become your response to everything, everyone and all.
It is when gratitude becomes your response to each step along your sacred journey, to each interaction you have, to all those you think of and meet, that your mind will be in alignment with the Mind of God.
It is at One with the Mind of God that is your true Home, and where you belong. It is the Mind of God, Love’s energies and expressions, that you have been sent here to share with all those He sends your way.
All glory to God.
Peace. JBC