But I realized too often, I do the same thing. If, unfortunately, an offense I committed comes to light, I shift responsibility from my need to repent to the victim's unwillingness to understand me.
I found another magnet: a pump organ, the kind found in old churches. Tragic but true--those who line the pews of those places--I am one of them--tend to want to be seen as "not meaning to do anything wrong", as good persons.
It's taking me a lifetime to begin to see what the Bible has been saying forever.
The truth of the matter is, God is crazy in love with me just as I am, NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT I AM, BUT BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS.
So I changed the words on the bookmark to read: I DID mean to. Really. I'm a dirty rotten rascal. But can you find it in your heart to forgive me anyway?"
