One day during the early summer of my second or third grade. I was walking home from the school bus stop. Our trailer was toward the back of the trailer park. On my way home I saw a huge flower garden blooming along the roadway. The house was owned by an older women with grown children. It was a big two story brick home with a big front porch and large colored windows. I never saw so many flowers blooming and smelling so sweet. I just reached down and started to pick as many flowers as I could hold in my hand. They were beautiful and I wanted to give them to my mother as a surprise. I was so excited to present them to her and knew she would be very happy. Instead, when she saw the flowers, she instantly asked me where I got them. I told her, "I picked them for you!" To my surprise my mother wasn’t happy, she was angry. She scolded me and told me I had to take them back and apologize. I had to say I was sorry for picking flowers that didn’t belong to me!!....I was devastated. I couldn’t believe she could not want these flowers. They were so beautiful...She took me by the arm and marched me right up to the house where the flowers bloomed. By this time, I was crying so hard, I couldn’t speak. My voice turned into sobs of sorrow. My mother rang the doorbell and I just shuddered inside of my body. What was I going to say? Why did I have to do this? Why wasn’t my mother happy?...This was my first lesson on stealing. Until this time I had no idea that taking things that didn’t belong to me was stealing. I didn’t know what stealing was....but I sure knew now!!...It seemed like forever and the lady came to the door. My mother said, " My daughter has something to tell you." With everything inside of me..I tried to find a voice and through the tears and sobs of sorrow, I told her I picked her flowers and I was sorry!!.. She smiled and said, it was okay but my mother made me give them back to the lady...and dragged me away...I never ever forgot the sorrow I felt to have to apologize for my actions. I learned that stealing was something I didn’t want to have to go through again...At least not until I got over this!!! I always will remember how devastated I was when I had to apologize for something I did in love.. I wanted my mother to be happy, and I saw nothing wrong with taking something that belong to some one else and take it for my own...I realize now..this is exactly what Jesus did for me...even though I did things that are wrong, and I thought I might be doing it in love....or I don’t even consider it wrong!! It is!! And Jesus died for that...He forgives, and guides me down the path of correction with His forgiveness and His LOVE!!
Friday, October 15, 2010
EVERYDAY TEACHES LESSONS
One day during the early summer of my second or third grade. I was walking home from the school bus stop. Our trailer was toward the back of the trailer park. On my way home I saw a huge flower garden blooming along the roadway. The house was owned by an older women with grown children. It was a big two story brick home with a big front porch and large colored windows. I never saw so many flowers blooming and smelling so sweet. I just reached down and started to pick as many flowers as I could hold in my hand. They were beautiful and I wanted to give them to my mother as a surprise. I was so excited to present them to her and knew she would be very happy. Instead, when she saw the flowers, she instantly asked me where I got them. I told her, "I picked them for you!" To my surprise my mother wasn’t happy, she was angry. She scolded me and told me I had to take them back and apologize. I had to say I was sorry for picking flowers that didn’t belong to me!!....I was devastated. I couldn’t believe she could not want these flowers. They were so beautiful...She took me by the arm and marched me right up to the house where the flowers bloomed. By this time, I was crying so hard, I couldn’t speak. My voice turned into sobs of sorrow. My mother rang the doorbell and I just shuddered inside of my body. What was I going to say? Why did I have to do this? Why wasn’t my mother happy?...This was my first lesson on stealing. Until this time I had no idea that taking things that didn’t belong to me was stealing. I didn’t know what stealing was....but I sure knew now!!...It seemed like forever and the lady came to the door. My mother said, " My daughter has something to tell you." With everything inside of me..I tried to find a voice and through the tears and sobs of sorrow, I told her I picked her flowers and I was sorry!!.. She smiled and said, it was okay but my mother made me give them back to the lady...and dragged me away...I never ever forgot the sorrow I felt to have to apologize for my actions. I learned that stealing was something I didn’t want to have to go through again...At least not until I got over this!!! I always will remember how devastated I was when I had to apologize for something I did in love.. I wanted my mother to be happy, and I saw nothing wrong with taking something that belong to some one else and take it for my own...I realize now..this is exactly what Jesus did for me...even though I did things that are wrong, and I thought I might be doing it in love....or I don’t even consider it wrong!! It is!! And Jesus died for that...He forgives, and guides me down the path of correction with His forgiveness and His LOVE!!
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