Day 8 - Chesed of Gevurah: Loving-kindness in Discipline
The underlying intention and motive in discipline
is love. Why do we measure our behavior, why do we establish standards
and expect people to live up to them -- only because of love. Chesed of
gevurah is the love in discipline; it is the recognition that your
personal discipline and the discipline you expect of others is only an
expression of love. It is the understanding that we have no right to
judge others; we have a right only to love them and that includes
wanting them to be their best.
Ask yourself: when I judge and criticize another
is it in any way tinged with any of my own contempt and irritation? Is
there any hidden satisfaction in his failure? Or is it only out of love
for the other?
Exercise for the day: Before you criticize someone today, think twice: Is it out of concern and love?Reprinted from The Daily Omer Aish.com
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