[Salvation]

**Many of us are far too interested in things that are really none of our business. That alone is problem enough. But the problem is compounded in that the busybody is almost always too little concerned about his own ”issues” (we used to call them sins). When our attention to, fascination with, or scorn about sin is directed outward, we lose the proper introspection that properly examines our own need for repentance. The pointed index finger too easily ignores the three folded fingers pointing back at oneself, and those three fingers symbolize the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit urging us to look to our own vineyard.**

[Salvation]

If one has been calumniated, slandered or gossiped about behind their back; they know exactly what this article is about!

Lord have mercy!

[WayneS]

And why behold you the mote that is in your brother’s eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

~ C.S. Lewis

[P.O.E.]

keeps us focused on what we cannot change so that we do not focus on what we can change

Never thought of it that way. Nice insight.

[9thLife]

Given that being a busybody is the new national pastime — nay, occupation — this seems timely.

[Coleus]

Merriam-Webster online defines a busybody as “a person who is too interested in the private lives of other people.” It is a form of sinful curiosity. >>>>

I define it as the NSA!!