Reflecting on today’s verse, Sister Joyce Rupp writes, “This past year, I’ve become more aware of the scenarios that crowd and clutter my mind, those imaginary settings in which I conceive of what someone might be thinking, feeling or planning to do. These scenarios waste a lot of my energy that could be spent on something worthwhile. The more I intentionally send those mental judgments on their way, the more quickly I become alert to them when they zoom into my mind. Booting them out with an inner smile becomes increasingly easy as I say, ‘Oh, here is my six thousand and five hundredth scenario.’ The word spoken to Jeremiah strengthens my resolve to recognize that I have neither the ability nor the right to ‘probe the mind and test the heart’ of another with my mental ruminations.”