The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
As we approach the Day of Judgment, one wonders how we might focus in preparing for our case before the Most High Judge, who will judge us with the unvarnished truth, hopefully tempered with mercy. The truth about all of our lives – our accomplishments and shortcomings, the justifiable explanations and the empty excuses, that which was done with sincerity and the times that we just went through the motions (or even failed to do that) – all of it will be reviewed and judged by the Judge of Truth on these Days of Awe. It would seem that the least we could do to prepare ourselves to meet the Judge of Truth is to be truthful ourselves, and only then ask for Divine Mercy given our shortcomings as frail, limited, mortal humans. Unfortunately, it seems to me that whole and complete Truth is a rare commodity in our world. Note: I did not say that Truth is a rare commodity. There is a lot of Truth that is spoken about many topics, and that is...