"First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye" (Luke 6:42)
In Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus uses a vivid image of us having a log in our eye: it seems absurd that someone could not see or feel such a thing. But we are all capable of an even greater absurdity on the spiritual level when we think we know ourselves completely. A blind man would never offer to lead someone else anywhere, but when we direct others spiritually without due preparation ourselves, we are doing worse.
