I read this story today from President Monson's talk "Charity Never Faileth" and I realized how far I have to go before I actually get "there". This talk almost had me in tears, perhaps it was the timing of reading it but I could really see how the windows I am looking out are dirty. You will have to read the talk for yourself but I would like to take a short clip from it. "A young couple, Lisa and John, moved into a new neighborhood. One morning while they were eating breakfast, Lisa looked out the window and watched her next-door neighbor hanging out her wash.
John looked on but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry, Lisa would make the same comments.
A few weeks later Lisa was surprised to glance out her window and see a nice, clean wash hanging in her neighbor’s yard. She said to her husband, “Look, John—she’s finally learned how to wash correctly! I wonder how she did it.”
John replied, “Well, dear, I have the answer for you. You’ll be interested to know that I got up early this morning and washed our windows!”
I realize how judgemental I can be sometimes and need to use a little bit of my own advice, I have always quoted my Grandpa's saying "never let another's failings make you to there virtue blind". I don't remember who said this but I once read "The Lord doesn't judge a man until he is dead; we shouldn't either."
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