Old Maid and Forgiveness

Yesterday Mike's sermon was about my blog and Old Maid.

OK, that wasn't really the point of the sermon. 

The sermon was actually about forgiveness.

He spoke of the verse in Matthew 18 where Peter asked Jesus

how many times he should forgive someone.

Basically he was told that he should keep forgiving indefinitely.

Mike also said that witholding forgiveness is like carrying

around something that is dead and stinky.

I really liked that description as it

so clearly gives the mental picture

of how horrible it is to keep dragging

around those feelings of

anger and resentment

and

refusing

to

put it down.

Anyway, back to Old Maid.

Did you read this post that had a little teeny, tiny

mention of playing Old Maid with Mike and his Mom?

Well, Mike referred to that post and

 told the congregation that I had

slandered him on the internet!

(I hope you are smiling right now, as this was all in good fun.)

Mike went on to say how difficult it was to

forgive me

for the public slander.

Finally, he said that he would forgive me since

I am so beautiful and ....................... he said more nice stuff about me

but after hearing "beautiful" I was unable to focus on

much of anything else.  I felt embarrassed but it was the

good kind of embarrassed.

So, because Mike publicly called me beautiful

I will forgive HIM for being such a cheater

at Old Maid...

...but I don't think I will play it with him again anytime soon!