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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from A Life of Character by J.R. Miller, published in 1894.

It is better to have eyes for beauty than for blemish. It is better to be able to see the roses than the thorns.

It is better to have learned to look for things

to commend in others than for things to condemn. Of course other people have faults, and we are not

blind, but then we have faults of our own, and this should make us charitable.

There is a divine teaching on this subject. Jesus said, do not judge or you too will be judged.

But we need to understand just what those words mean. After all, we cannot help judging others.

We should be able to read people's character and to know whether they are good or bad.

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