Right back at you...

To know forgiveness is to extend forgiveness. To know mercy and compassion is to be merciful and compassionate.

When mercy and compassion are extended to others and we ourselves find ourselves embittered or angered or feeling that they are being let off "scott-free", we need to check ourselves, consider our own lives, and open our own hearts to receive the grace.  For graceless people do not extend grace; grace must be given by the graceful.

As children we were told not to point our finger at others, because we get three other fingers point back at us. The principle remains. When we condemn others, we point to our own sense of condemnation.  Judgment and condemnation keep pointing fingers, but grace opens and frees our hands to love and also to be loved. 

~Ryon Price/2nd Thoughts