Better Late

No one wants anything in their eye. We all have work to be done.

But in the specks and logs passage of the Gospel, we sometimes forget what the goal actually is: to see clearly.

It reminds me of a quote from St. Zélie Martin: "I want to become a saint; it will not be easy at all. I have a lot of wood to chop and it is as hard as stone. I should have started sooner, while it was not so difficult; but in any case 'better late than never.'"

Here's what strikes me about both Jesus' teaching and St. Zélie's honesty: everything starts with seeing. Seeing that there's a problem. Seeing what needs to be done.

The speck is real. The log is real. The hard wood that needs chopping is real.

We can't address what we can't see. And we can't see clearly when our vision is obstructed.

The first goal is sight itself. Everything else flows from there.