However, your need to judge, no matter how mistaken, came from a good intention in your heart. You wanted to do right and good. You wanted to serve. The best you knew was to call in judgment.

Judgment came to your aid as a servant, only your servant started to rule the roost. Judgment likes to take over and color all of your life. Judgment sorts right and left and has perhaps grown to call the shots in your life. Judgment puts thoughts in your head and words in your mouth. Judgment sort of shakes you the way you might shake a little rug out the window.

Judgment takes you on a ride. He picks you up and takes you where you really don't want to go. Judgment is like a commando, or a kidnapper who is avid to tell you what to think.

It is not enough to try to push this arbitrator judgment away. He has a stronghold, and he's not easy to push around.

We need someone else to come in and take judgment's place. Who is that can take over for judgment? Who can take a more forgiving point of view? Who can get you out of the bind that judgment has tied you in? What is the name that we give to what can get you out of judgment's trap? You know it's a trap, don't you? A well-worn trap. Judgment does not want to let go of the reins. Judgment has enjoyed his judge's seat too much to want to leave. He doesn't want to give up his gavel.

Judgment bears a resemblance to a crooked politician. He has been found out and yet refuses to leave. Judgment refuses to concede his duplicity. He was only trying to do his job. The thing is that judgment's job became more important than your welfare and the welfare of others.

Well, then, who is that has the power and the willingness to overthrow judgment? Who is that can take judgment by its coattails and get it out of the way? Who has the muscle? Can you guess? Can you guess what can displace judgment?

Judgment's replacement doesn't look like someone who muscles his way in. He doesn't flex his muscles. He is an entirely different breed.

Of course, judgment's replacement is a form of love. I will call it compassion. I will call it understanding. I will call it an ability to look in a different way. Instead of jumping into the middle, as judgment is wont to do, judgment's replacement is not holier than thou. Judgment's replacement is more than open-minded. He is open-hearted. Compassion has an open heart. That really means that his mind isn't closed either.

You who are reading My words, you are just like all those that judgment judged. You made your share of mistakes, even wrong-doings. Other's judgments have disdained you. Your own judgment has called you guilty. Your own judgment has thrown stones at you. Beloveds, what have you been guilty of but making an error? What have you been guilty of but not knowing as much yesterday as you know today? You haven't lacked awareness of suffering in life. Judgment does its best to make sure you suffer.

Say to yourself: "I have been as much a fool as anyone else. I have made choices I later regretted. Does anyone need to be sentenced for his mistakes? Can I not be an original thinker and be a friend rather than a foil? To myself and to others. Do I really think that judgment is stronger than understanding? Who would be alive in this world if, after three misses, he was out?"