There are definitions of respect.
The first refers to being polite or civil to those we meet or with whom we interact.
This would include being respectful to a teacher.
Family will treat other family members respectfully during visits or gatherings.
It also includes strangers with polite respect.
Another meaning however, refers to our feelings toward those who merit respect through honorable living.
We admire their commitment or standards.
For example, we might respect a sailor who gave up winning a boat race to save a man overboard.
Yet if we were to interact with these people, we would likely treat them with respectful or polite manners, regardless of our feelings about their transgressions.
Ultimately, we can treat people respectfully because they are human made in the image of God. even if we do not honor or admire their acts.
Most of all, being respectful in others words is a Christian life.
As parents and leaders, we are to honor both definitions. We want children not only to treat us with respect using good manors, but also to honor our guidance and words, which we seek to exemplify through Christ like living.\
Respect is an expression of our sense of universal brotherhood or sisterhood,
a testimony of our membership in the human family.
It acknowledges our common humanity and shows our reverence for children of God.
The gospel teaches us that we are to hold the same esteem for others, that we hold for ourselves (Mt. 7:12).
Acting disrespectfully suggests or do not esteem the other person as ourselves.
For example, prejudice is a result of disrespect for our fellowman.
We cannot participate in attitudes of prejudice without distancing ourselves from others. True respect then, comes as we develop our ability to love our brothers and our sisters as ourselves.
What we say about people in their absence should be what we would say to them
with love, if they were present.
Sympathy-
Harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
Care- a troubled or burdened state of mind; worry; concern
Respect allows one to build trust with others.
1. Respect allows you to build a relationships.
2. It provides one with “an entry,: into the other side.
3. In addition, according respect can make the key difference in the direction of the conflict.
4. Those who are respected within the community are most likely to bring or encourage peace.
5. Its presence can lead to a positive change, while its absence may lead to even more disturbances.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Who's to Judge?
Judge- to form an opinion, to decide as an arbitrator or umpire.
Christ did not teach using stipulations but guidelines.
Christ’s only asked and desire was for submission and a willing heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
When a friend is in trouble, do not annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
A great deal of our judging of others—is mis-judging or unjust judging, because of the fragmentariness of our knowledge of their personal lives and experiences. It would often grieve us, and make us sorely ashamed of ourselves, if, when we have judged another severely—we should be shown a glimpse of the other's inner life, revealing hidden sorrows and struggles which are the cause of the things in him, which we have blamed so much. We have only a most partial view of another's life—and cannot form absolutely unerring judgments on what we see and know. We see only one side of an act, when there may be another side which altogether changes its quality. On the back side of the tapestry, is but a blurred mass of yarn; while the other side, is exquisite beauty. Life is full of similar two-sided views of people and of acts. We see a man out in the world, and he appears harsh and stern. We see him some day at home where his invalid child lies and suffers, and there he is another man—kindly, thoughtful, with almost motherly gentleness. It would have been most unjust to this man—if we had made up our judgment of him from the outside view alone, without seeing him in his child's sick-room.
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Christ did not come to judge, he came to reach out to ones. Jn. 3: 17
Jn. 12: 47, Mt. 9: 9-13
Christ did not teach using stipulations but guidelines.
Christ’s only asked and desire was for submission and a willing heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”
When a friend is in trouble, do not annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
A great deal of our judging of others—is mis-judging or unjust judging, because of the fragmentariness of our knowledge of their personal lives and experiences. It would often grieve us, and make us sorely ashamed of ourselves, if, when we have judged another severely—we should be shown a glimpse of the other's inner life, revealing hidden sorrows and struggles which are the cause of the things in him, which we have blamed so much. We have only a most partial view of another's life—and cannot form absolutely unerring judgments on what we see and know. We see only one side of an act, when there may be another side which altogether changes its quality. On the back side of the tapestry, is but a blurred mass of yarn; while the other side, is exquisite beauty. Life is full of similar two-sided views of people and of acts. We see a man out in the world, and he appears harsh and stern. We see him some day at home where his invalid child lies and suffers, and there he is another man—kindly, thoughtful, with almost motherly gentleness. It would have been most unjust to this man—if we had made up our judgment of him from the outside view alone, without seeing him in his child's sick-room.
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
Christ did not come to judge, he came to reach out to ones. Jn. 3: 17
Jn. 12: 47, Mt. 9: 9-13
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