Saturday, February 24, 2007

Of Bearing with the Defects of Others

I titled the post the same as Book 1, Chapter 16 of The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis because nothing else seemed quite as relevant.  When I read this passage I was struck deeply by what he says about bearing with each other, and especially by this nugget of wisdom:

If thou canst not make thyself such an one as thou wouldest, how wilt thou be able to have another in all things to thy liking?

This is so amazingly correct!  I'm going to add this to, "What do you have that you did not receive?" as one of my repeat-this-often-to-yourself phrases.