13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Life requires decisions, decisions require judgments.  Tt follows, then, that we make judgments all day long.  Every decision we make involves judging and judgment of various factors (even indecision is making the choice not to decide, which is guided by our judgments).  So why does “judging” get such a bad wrap?  Why does God speak so directly against judging others in Scripture?  Can we judge or can’t we?  The answer is, “Yes, we can and should judge”…but there is a distinction to be made between two very different kinds of judgment – one that we must make, and one that we ought never to make.  The problem is, we often jump right from the first into the second!