It's MINE!

Two of my kids were fighting yesterday. It was a misunderstanding involving ownership of a tape measure. It wasn't even a nice tape measure. It was one of those junky free ones you get when you buy mini blinds.

Neither of them could see anything that was their fault but instead blamed the other with the prideful angry countenance that comes from being "completely in the right".

It reminded me of the many fights misunderstandings that I've had with Honey over the last 20 years. It's never my fault. It's always his. And then somehow this annoying thing happens where the Lord slowly softens my heart and I start to see my side of it. My sin is revealed and his isn't quite so offending. It happens every single time. Every Single Time.

In our regular reading was Psalm 32. The theme is forgiveness. Imagine that!
It turned out to be a good reminder for all of us. So we talked about it and slowly I saw the faces of my children change. They apologized to each other and my mother heart smiled.

Boy could I relate! Like my 2 squabblers I tend to cling to my right to my tape measure, willing to risk relationships in an effort to keep what was never mine to begin with. It always seems important at the time but later it turns out that it was all silly and didn't matter at all. As I was listening to my kids explain what happened, I just wanted to roll my eyes and to somehow make them see how dumb this was.

I wonder if God does that with me??