"Good morning! I am so glad that you are in my life. I am praying for you and through my writings you can know without a doubt that you are in my thoughts each day. You are loved. Today I want to talk to you about faults. This is an important subject and it will help us to learn how they can be debilitating to our life when we develop an attitude of fault finding. Here is a truth that can't be denied, our faults irritate us most when we see them in others. I suggest if you're always focused on fault-finding in others, try looking at faults through the use of a close mirror with your reflection, rather than a telescope looking afar at someone else. If we had no faults of our own, then we should not take so much pleasure in finding them in other people.
Jean De La Fontaine has said, Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: and neither fear nor shame can cure them. Faults are those individual flawed characteristics that we all have. In fact, there is no one without a fault; for we would not have a friend in the world if we didn't. Another aspect of our subject is that a fault that humbles a person is of greater value than a virtue that essentially puffs him up. Whenever we engage with a spirit to find fault in others, it becomes an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. This being applied in such a manner will become a key to your destruction. I'm not insinuating this morning that you are riddled with this fault-finding apparatus, but rather offering some reflection so as that we may watch out from daily developing of a crippling attitude for ourselves as we crush those around us over the disgust we have of ourselves.
In the words of William Shakespeare, Men's faults to themselves seldom appear. But oh how they can see them in others with such clarity. Perfection is what a person works so hard to nail down in their own life, and because of this they can't stand to see faults in others that so reminds them of their very own. This is why they tear that person down for their fault, it is because they want it so badly out of their own life. The thing is you can't rip out of someone else what you have breaking down within your life. But people attempt to do this just the same. Bad people excuse their faults; whereas wise people will acknowledge them and accept that they need the help of others stronger then themselves in their area of weakness.
We must all realize that we fall short in many areas, thus the potential to see these same faults in someone else is very probable. Depending on how you treat those who may have the same faults that you have, determines your humility or reveals your pridefulness. Let us remember that fault-finding in others is always due to our own disgust of the inward faults that we despise in ourselves. Therefore, never take out your anger on another person when the truth is it is your own fault that is being seen in them. Forgiveness is the cure, to forgive others of their shortcomings and of equal or of more importance, to forgive yourself for your own shortfalls. This will keep you from becoming critical of others and of yourself." ~Dad~ |
