Getting caught........

   One day my friend came up to me and told me that my child had done something that I thought was truly horrible. It made angry....AND it made me laugh.
   That afternoon I decided to tell my son that he owed me an apology for something he did at church, but I wasn't going to tell him what it was. I wanted him to say it out loud.
   "What mom?.....what did I do?"
   "You will tell me when you are ready. It's clear to me that you know what you did."
   "Mom...YOU tell me first!!!!"
   "No....I will wait."
   And I did. The next day he said, "Mom, I just want to know what you know. You tell me and I'll apologize."
   "I want you to say it. If you say it....you receive full mercy for your action. You are caught."
   "The next day I could tell he wasn't having a good day. He was really irritable and anxious. Finally I cornered him to put him out of his misery and said, "You should just tell me, son. I already know. This is when Jesus died for you. Right now. Not when you are playing nicely with your sister. Not when you get an A in school. Not when you clean your room without me asking. He died for you in this moment."
   And he told me.
   Turns out he was asking people for quarters at church for the offering....and spending his pity money on coke....shrewd. I told him that he was very clever....and never do it again.
   Today a friend of mine gave me a big fluffy loaf of bread that she made. It's perfect.
   So perfect.
   On the way home I was thinking of this perfect loaf of bread and that it just may be hard to cut into it....and it hit me.
   This perfect loaf became the very body of Christ for me, and I imagined cutting it with a sharp knife. As I think about that, it's hard not to reflect on the very mercy of how Christ died for me in my darkest moments. To think about slicing that bread, I become the people that killed Jesus on that day and then imagine Him looking me in the eye after He rose.....because it turns out you can't kill God.....oops.
   What about you?
   Is there anything right now that God knows already and He is waiting for you to say it outloud?
   Go ahead and slice that bread.....and then look Him in the eye and see how He responds.
   Oh how He loves you......Oh how He loves you and me!