JUDGMENT

While on a walk one day, I was surprised to see a man hoeing his garden while sitting in a chair. 

"What laziness!" I thought.

But suddenly I saw, leaning against his chair, a pair of crutches. The man was at work despite his handicap.

The lesson I learned about snap judgments that day has stayed with me for years now: the crosses people bear are seldom in plain sight.

- Annette Ashe, Guideposts (moreillustrations.com)

John 7:24 (NIV): “Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” -  Henry Ward Beecher.