The rush to judgment

Hamodia published a letter from a reader in which she described an incident that she had experienced at a grocery store.
Ms. Steinberger wrote that while she was walking down the aisles of the store, an elderly man in a scooter asked a man who was reaching for something on a top shelf if he could get him an item, as well.
The woman was shocked to hear the man's retort.
"What's the matter - are you crippled?"
She resolved to help the elderly gentleman, but the other man had already retrieved the item and had given it to the old man.
Thinking very negative thoughts, the woman decided to ask the man why he had acted in such a rude manner.
The man explained that the elderly gentleman was his neighbor and that the doctor had told him that if he didn't make an effort to walk, he would soon be unable to walk.
Chastized, the woman realized the man had only good intentions in mind and she learned a valuable lesson of not jumping to conclusions.
She ended the letter by writing that she had learned something about the ways of G-d from that incident.
"How many times have I felt that Hashem was making my life difficult, and why couldn't He just....
Yet all along He was helping me."

We, too, can learn lessons from the above story. We should not be quick to judge a person's actions as we can never know the whole story.
This week Israeli media was rife with reports about a car accident in which seven people from one family were killed. How many of us rushed to judge the driver? And, how many of us thought of the possible extenuating circumstances that could exonerate him. Even the police posited that he might have been blinded by the sun.

Yom Kippur, the day of Judgment, is fast approaching. How would we like G-d to judge us?