The measure you measure (St. Francis de Sales / Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

Above all, avoid false accusations
and the distortion of truth,
regarding your neighbor.

--St. Francis de Sales 

    The universe gives back to us morally exactly what we give to it. As Jesus worded it, the measure you measure out is the measure that will be measured back to you. 

   What we breathe out is what we’re going to inhale. If I breathe out selfishness, selfishness is what I will inhale; if I breathe out bitterness, that’s what I’ll meet at every turn. 

   Conversely, if I breathe out love, gracious, and forgiveness, these will be given back to me in the exact measure that I give them out. 

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser OMI,
Facebook, October 18, 2019 

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