Build Your World

Make it a pratice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and in all circumstances. - Saint Vincent De'Paul

A religious man learned that a prostitute was doing business in his neighborhood.  He found her house, stood across the street and watched men enter and leave her home.  Every time he saw a customer walk out he placed a stone in a little pile symbolizing the wieght and extent of her sins.  Years later the prostitute died and so did the man.  When the man was shown his heavenly abode he was aghast to find but a heap of stones similiar to the mound he had used to mark the prostitutes wrongdoing.  On the other side of the grey pile he saw a magnificient estate with rolling lawns and colorful gardens, where the prostitute strolled joyfully.  "There must be some mistake!" he railed.  "That woman was a prostitute and I was a religious man".

"There is no mistake" a voive answered.  "That prostitutue hated her job, but it was the only way she could support herself and her young daughter.  Everytime she was with a client she inwardly prayed 'Dear God, please get me out of this'.  You on the other hand were fascinated only with her sins.  While she was talking to God, you were talking to rocks.  She got what she prayed for and so did you."

Things are not what they appear to be.  We never really know the motive or the consciousness behind someones actions.  Any act can be a tool of the ego or an avenue for the Holy Spirit.  We inherent the world we build with our thoughts.

I pray to keep you in my mind today.  Let me not wander into temptation to see less than love.

I build a world of beaty today with my thoughts.