BOXED
When I label you,
I stuff you in a box, then
trim what doesn’t fit.
(c) Marie Elena Good, 2018
pictured words
a simple pairing of pictures and poetry
Tag: Passing Judgement
October 28, 2018
September 25, 2017
THIS I KEEP ON DOING (a sinner’s sonnet)
Photo by Deanna Marie Metts
“For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do –
this I keep on doing.” ~ Romans 7:19
Like Paul, I do what I don’t want to do.
The best in me is shallow as a shoal,
That barely covers that which is askew.
An ugliness lies deep within my soul.
Too quick am I to judge and criticize.
This goes against my core belief; my creed.
I want to see my fellow man with eyes
That focus on their value and their need.
I give to Christ my own besetting sin
And ask Him to unseat its hiding place.
I beg of Him to change me from within –
Remove what doesn’t bolster love and grace.
For He alone can break through this façade
To commandeer the part that’s deeply flawed.
© Marie Elena Good, 2017
June 26, 2017
A Mile is Nothing
Don’t judge anyone
Until you’ve walked in their shoes
As long as they have.
July 21, 2016
logs (a sonnetina tre)
Photo credit: Wikimedia
“And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?” ~ Mat. 7:3
Another checkmark in our verdicts’ log –
Our record of the judgements we decree.
We haughtily embrace the demagogue
Whose words lynch those with whom we disagree.
Rose-colored glasses will not help our plight –
We need to clearly see our world “as is.”
God’s eyes spill love despite His perfect sight.
Oh, may He help us eye our world through His.
So quick to judge. To loathe. To vilify.
So blinded by the log in our own eye.
© Marie Elena Good, 2016
May 30, 2015
Treating our Mentally Ill
Haunting, disturbing photo by KEN SCHULER CATERS NEWS
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