I had been instructed all my childhood, “Do not run through
the dining room!” One day I ran through
and pushed into the kitchen through the swinging door, cape flying behind me in
my wake! From the kitchen I heard a crashing
and breaking sound. I laid the pieces back together and balanced them perfectly
and escaped to my room on tip toes. I
remember missing Mom those days that I kept her in my deception. Looking back I recognize that my falsehood
created separation. Then I heard
it. Crash! I discovered my mother with the four pieces
of her grandmother’s dish on the table…weeping!
That lie leapt from my guts as if someone had performed the Heimlich
maneuver. And we are to be lovers of
truth once we put off the old and put on the new self!
Ephesians 4:17-24
Coach/PJ
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