A young couple who had just moved into a new neighbourhood, were eating breakfast one morning when the wife saw their neighbour through the window hanging her laundry outside, and remarked, “Honey, look! That laundry is not clean. She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time when the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the wife would make the same comments.
About one month later, the wife was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband, “Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her!” And the husband said, “I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows.” And so it is with life. What we see when we watch others, depends on the purity of the window through which we look. It is easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us. Yet we tend to forget that our windows aren’t clean after all.
May we be granted the strength, humility and courage to work on our faults first before castigating others for theirs!
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