Readings:
Psalm 119:25-48 Deuteronomy 4:32-40 2 Corinthians 1:23-2:17 Luke 15:1-2, 11-32
Sermon:
When the movie Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, came out on DVD, my youngest son was repeatedly warned that he was not allowed to watch it, that it was too scary for him and he would have nightmares. He promised he wouldn’t, not even if my older kids rented it and saw it. But sure enough, one night when they rented the DVD and were watching Sweeney Todd turn his victims into meatpies, my son was hiding behind the couch, watching every gory detail. And sure enough, he had nightmares for weeks, and my older children would tease him by sneaking up behind him and shouting “Meatpies!” at him. When I took him to get a haircut before Christmas that year, he ran screaming out of the salon, crying that he didn’t want to be made into a meatpie. Needless to say, he has never lived that down, and every time he goes in for a haircut now, the stylist laughs and reminds him of that incident, that was funny for her but embarrassing for him.
This is a relatively small incident, but then my son is only 7 years old, and faces a long lifetime in which he will make his share of poor choices and suffer regrets, hopefully none more serious than this, but almost certainly they will happen. And no matter how far he will think that he has put them behind him, they will have a way of sneaking up on him and coming back to haunt him, just as they do for all of us.
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