Blessings, affirmations, grace, and reflection

My weekend was a wash. It had been raining for days and my mind and body shut down and refused to function. I pretty much came home from work on Friday and that was all she wrote. I needed to get work done this weekend but my mind just wasn't focused enough to do it. So when Monday rolled around I decided to take a day off. I need to have these days to regroup sometimes.  I managed to get more done before noon than I have all week. I paid rent, mailed a form to my student loan lender, washed my clothes and bedding, cleaned the cat box, cleaned the oven (it is self-cleaning) flipped my mattress, followed up on getting licensed out of state, and handled a few random items. All before noon. Not to mention I am showered and dressed! Go me! I need to do some reading for work, plan out the rest of my week, and go through papers to find my referral for dental work. I will need to get extractions of my remaining wisdom teeth and a root canal on a tooth that a stupid dentist in New York t...

Can we honestly say this? We all have judgments. We all have opinions. We were trained that way. I remember being in school learning to write and we had to write an opinion piece. I struggled with it. I never really had strong opinions about anything other than eating beets or wearing certain clothes before that time. Should we strive to not not judge others? We all know the saying, "only God can judge me." Yet, we are judged by the world every second of the day. When you step on a bus or walk down the street someone is judging you. Is judging fair? Forcing your opinions on other people's lives? My environment is wearing me down. I know I am being judged and I in turn judge others harshly. Fear breeds contempt and I live in a community where in the millisecond your life can take a turn. Yet, we continue to sweat the small stuff. When I was getting myself all bent out of shape because of my phone situation I had to talk to myself. I told myself that this is minor is...