Stone Thrower

Tomorrow is my Sunday to teach the YW. You would think that since it is Father's Day I would be teaching about the priesthood or something...nope...that was a couple of weeks ago. No, my lesson in on Forgiveness. I have been working on this lesson for a while and have been praying....really praying for an opportunity to use this. Of course in my tiny brain I thought that someone would wrong me and I'd take the high road and...well you get the idea.

WRONG! Sometimes I should just eat my words, literally, swallow them whole and then yank my foot out of my mouth.

Asking for forgiveness is hard. Not knowing whether you are forgiven, even harder. But forgiving yourself for hurting someone you care about is the hardest. I know that to be forgiven doesn't come instantly, it takes time for the wronged person to want to forgive, I get that. But how can I forgive myself for my stupidity? For being rude? For hurting them?

Sometimes I wish I could be like Bill and Ted and be able to turn back the clock and do things over again, but I guess we all know that this isn't possible. I suppose that why we have the atonement, so that we can have those mistakes erased and least in God's eyes.

Well this post is turning into a rambling fest so I'll end here. I hope that when I teach this lesson tomorrow I can help them understand the importance of not being a stone thrower. Whether they are throwing stones at someone else or at themselves.P.S. This is my hand out, to be given with Jaw Breakers.

Wish me luck.