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Finding Your Feet

Psalm 51:7-12 ; John 13:1-17 One of the many things that you learn as a parent is that you will learn as much or more from your children than they will from you. One of these unexpected revelations happened after the birth of our first child when my wife called me and excitedly told me that our child had found her feet. I didn’t realize it at the time, but that’s kind of a basic developmental event so it was pretty exciting to for her to see it happen! And so the joys continued with the first wobbly steps and now she is about to graduate high school and take off running in a new direction. Oh, the places she will go…and so it is with all of us as spiritual children. The more mobile we get, the more opportunity there is for both success and failure. That’s why the season of Lent is designed for the opportunity to stop and take stock of our lives. That’s why our liturgy has a time for confession every Sunday – whether we feel like we need it or not! As spiritual creatures, confession oft...