My affirmation is:
I am in demand as I present the Playbook Series with authenticity from my heart
This week we talked about judgement and how it can interfere with achieving our goals. My momentum steps are all base on that:
1 Be aware of judgement; given and received. Note who, what , when, where, and why
2 When I judge or feel judged I will grab the sticker off my shirt, was it up and throw it away
3 I will spend at least 2 minutes every day looking at my eyes in the mirror
4 I will write about how judgement hold me back from my goals
5 I will risk embarrassment to do something I really want to do
Additionally, I will do at least one more choice process this week.
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Judgement: Knowledge & Wisdom
May these thoughts strengthen you.
One time Jesus told a story of 2 sowers and 2 seeds, Do you recall it? MT 13
I can picture Jesus eating an apple and telling this parable as an answer to the question of how can Jesus claim to have bought God’s message and yet been so unsuccessful.
I've read there was a common weed in Palestine called ‘darnel,’ in its early stages darnel looks exactly like wheat. And this was used as a common form of sabotage. It got to be so common so it was outlawed by the Roman government as a form of sabotage. The practical joke revolves around watching the farmer act like he is about to be a rich man as soon as his doubly sown bumper crop is harvested. But when the seeds on the stalk appear, the two can be distinguished only by color; then the misery begins. At harvest the darnel had to be separated from the good grain because its seeds were slightly poisonous.
Even in what appears to be all weeds, God can see some wheat, in what appears to be evil, God sees that still there is still some good. This parable is a reminder that God does not judge while we are still growing.
Good and evil occupies the same field (the world). The farm hands come to the owner and ask, "Do you want us to pull these weeds?" But the owner says “no".... "Because if you try, you might damage the grain still in process of developing. The parable encourages a noninterventionist approach to ‘weeds.’ Observe what raging and furious minds have done; who desired to force others to believe: the Turks with the sword, heretics with fire, the Jews with death, others with edicts and laws to root the tares by their own power, as if they were the ones who could reign over the hearts and spirits mankind, and make them holy, which God's Seed/Word alone is capable of. Reminds me of the song “One Tin Soldier” – “Do it in the name of heaven, everything will be justified in the end.”
The growth of the wheat is never questioned in the parable. The fact that the weeds are there does not stop the wheat. In other words, evil has no power over good.
The patience of the farmer is striking. It is a parable of hope. It is a parable of let’s wait and see.
This is a parable of God's judgment. We like the servants in the parable are obsessed with where evil comes from and what God is going to do about it right now. We have passed judgement and our judgement is true. The reply, "Wait until harvest," bitch slaps our considered judgement and the conventional wisdom of power & control is the answer to everything.
When I was a youngster the CW was “if a person looks good, they are good.” Later, I experienced the reality of looking good, and feeling bad because I was out of integrity with myself.
If The Holy One, blessed be He, can withhold final judgement shouldn't we try to do the same?
Besides, you know you want to bitch slap convention a few more times -- just for obscuring the truth and messing with your mind. Fess up -
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