Imagine a garden. In this garden there are wheats and there are weeds and you can never tell which one is which. Now Imagine that this garden is God’s garden and His people are the wheats and the weeds, and only God can tell the difference.
As human beings, we strive to do our best to be good. Some less so, not because they have no goodness in them, just like we may consider ourselves good but sometimes we make mistakes and we hurt other people. So therefore, we couldn’t really tell if one is good or bad only God can. One thing we can do is look at everyone as good and see everyone’s goodness rather than their faults.
As Fr. Dionne said at the sermon, If we try to find who the weeds are in our life, community, society we are committing serious blasphemy for only God can act like God and is the only one who can judge who the wheat or the weed.
From my point of view, I agree with Fr. Dionne. We cannot judge what is in someone’s heart. We don’t know what they are going through. By looking at everyone as wheat, we practice compassion and love and above all we have our ego checked which caused one to stray. When we judge our ego tells us that we are better than others and our ego will give us a list of what we are doing right. Listening to our ego just makes us a weed without knowing it because the ego self present to us all the good that we think we are, so we can make someone bad so we can point finger or we can separate ourselves from others.
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