Thought for the Day 3/7/2010

Take a Walk Around Yourself


When you’re criticizing others and are finding here and there
A fault or two to speak of, or a weakness you can tear;
When you’re blaming someone’s meanness or accusing one of self –
It’s time that you went out to take a walk around yourself.

There’s lots of human failures in the average of us all,
And lots of grave shortcomings in the short ones and the tall;
But when we think of evils men should lay upon the selves,
It’s time we all went out to take a walk around ourselves.

We need so often in this life this balancing set of scales,
Thus seeing how much in us wins and how much in us fails;
But before you judge another – just to lay them on the self –
It would be a splendid plan to take a walk around yourself.
- Helen Welshimer

Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven.
Lamentations 3:40-41