Before We Judge, What If We Loved?
Reflection:
Another Layer of Light
Why do we blame before we understand?
Why do we fear before we feel?
Why do we judge before we even look someone in the eyes and see the divine flicker in them?
It seems as though we are programmed—taught from birth—to divide. To fear what’s different. To place ourselves above others in some imaginary hierarchy, as if worth can be weighed like gold. But the more we truly learn, the more we open—not just our minds, but our hearts—the more this illusion crumbles.
Because underneath the skin, beyond the rituals, beyond the accent or clothing or prayer…
We are each other.
Fear is a lesson inherited. Judgment is fear with a mask. And blame? It’s the reflex of a soul afraid to look in the mirror. None of it is innate—it’s taught. And tragically, it’s taught young.
But what if we taught something else?
What if our first lessons were love?
What if we taught acceptance as a sacred duty?
What if we taught children they’re not better or worse than anyone—just equal, just worthy?
That was the message of a brown-skinned Jew named Jesus—radical love, uncomfortable equality, disruptive grace. Not power. Not empire. But compassion that crossed borders and forgiveness that shattered social order. His message was a revolution of the soul… until the empire hijacked it. Twisted it. Weaponized it. And sold it back to us as obedience and control.
And now? We see his name used to justify the very things he stood against: division, fear, judgment, exclusion.
Insight:
The sickness of humanity is not in our differences—but in what we do with them.
Fear, when taught as truth, becomes religion.
Judgment, when systematized, becomes culture.
But love, when remembered, becomes liberation.
You carry the divine spark—let it speak.
Closing Invitation:
What would change if you let go of fear and chose to love first?
What if the next time you felt the urge to judge… you paused and asked, what am I afraid of?
And what might heal in this world if more of us did that?
