Many of us have the tendency to judge others.  We judge people for faults that we struggle with ourselves.  Rather than face these things in our lives, we see them in those around us.  Jesus addresses our judgmental habits in Matthew 7.  Jesus explains we need to first take the speck out of our own eye and then we will be able to see the speck in the other person’s eye more clearly.

Lent can be a time to confront the specks in our own eyes and ask God for help to remove them.  We can become less judgmental, and more understanding of what others face – we can become more compassionate.