(WASHINGTON POST)
By Colbert I. King
A week’s worth of daily meditation readings in the publication “Forward Day by Day” put me in a different frame of mind as I approached today’s column. “If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil . . . then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday” was one of the scripture passages. “Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment” was another.
Stop running around “looking for and finding fault with everything, playing referee, throwing flags, calling strikes, putting people into penalty boxes,” cautioned a meditation.
“Judging with right judgment,” read another, “might also mean looking for things that are right in others as we dig below the surface to understand where they are coming from — sometimes it’s a place deserving of applause, not criticism.”
It was with that mind-set that I approached the keyboard.
And then I thought of Donald Trump.
There went the noonday sun.
Despite attempts to see things more clearly, Trump as darkness is not a notion easily dispelled.
Ah, but the meditation instructed, “Instead of catching people doing things wrong, make it your job to catch people doing things right.”
