Balancing judgement and mercy is hard to do....
One of my favorite lessons my teacher taught me was on the deep
incomprehensible love that the Creator has for humanity.
It is said that the Creator loves us so much that during our Earth School
experience He gives us a “buffer” between cause and effect. What does
this mean? Normally nothing would prevent cause and effect from
occurring in rapid cessation. So if you caused harm to another, we would
immediately feel the consequence. Imagine calling someone a hurtful
name and embarrassing them and then simultaneously being called a
hurtful name by someone and feeling too embarrassed. It’s a wild concept
to think of Earth without this “buffer” between cause and effect. But, the
Creator loves us so much that He wanted us to be able to have a second
chance before we suffer our own effect. This “buffer” or “second chance”
is called Time. Time is the buffer between cause and effect. In this
compassionate system, we can behave egregiously toward our fellow
neighbor and not experience the effect for years or even lifetimes in the
future. In this system, we are able to change our behavior before the
boomerang comes back to hit us. It’s a school system where all the
students are guaranteed to pass.
Now, lets look at our hearts. Often times we care so little for our fellow
man, we have such small hearts and apathy and even hatred for each
other that when we witness a fellow neighbor commit the slightest
transgression, we want instant cause and effect. We want the murdered
killed. The felon convicted. We want the traffic offender ticketed. We
want the cheater to suffer. We want the punishment, not just to
happen but to happen immediately. That’s how little we care for each
other. And this type of hatred for no reason is the root behind our wars,
our tsunamis, our floods, our earthquakes, and our global and individual
chaos.
Gandhi was once almost beaten alive and then refused to prosecute his
assailants. He knew better. He knew that if he sped up the process of
cause and effect for his assailants, he would also experience the same
increase effects in his life from his own actions For our lives are built on
our consciousness. And how we treat others is how we will be treated.
Time = Mercy = Love.
Today, as insurmountable as it seems, give your fellow neighbor Mercy
For No Reason. They do not have to earn it. You give them love just for
being alive. And I promise, without a shadow of a doubt, this love will spill
over to you, like sweet rain from the sky. For learning to love another is
learning to love yourself. We can tell how little you regard yourself by how
you regard others.
