Dramatic

I love story telling. I guess it has always been my thing. I have always put my own spin on things and when I talk in person I am a very animated person so I add a little spice here and there. Shane and Gabe, not so much. They are both big kidders and jokesters but story telling is not their thing. My story telling abilities have been passed onto Kristina. Over the past 16 years I have learned to only pull certain portions from her comments because 98% of it is just her being dramatic. She is telling the truth but she adds a little spice here and there.

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Last night Kristina's boyfriend, Jason, was at our house after track practice. We were all sitting in the living room watching television when Kristina about jumped out of her seat and said "Hey Mom, did I tell you that Jason made me pet a horse Sunday night?!?!" She said it in almost a tattling tone and I could see her looking at Jason out of the corner of her eye.

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"No" I answered "you didn't say anything about that."

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"Well, we were at the hang out after church and he PICKS me up, carries me over to this horse, grabs me around my waist and starts saying 'conquer your fears Kristina' and he made me pet this horse!"

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Now, let me stop for a minute and explain to you that Kristina is absolutely terrified of horses. Why? I have no clue. There is alot of things that Kristina does and doesn't do that is, well, unexplainable. You just go with the flow with her sometimes.

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About this time Jason starts holding his hands up in the hair saying "Wait a minute, oh you just wait right there!"

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Kristina got even louder, talking over him and not allowing him to talk at all. She turned her whole body towards him and said "Yes you did, yes you did!"

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By this time Jason was laughing to the point that he couldn't speak a word. He looked at me and said "Miss Lori, you know..." and about that time Kristina started up again "You did, Jason. You made me pet that horse and told me to conquer my fears! You did!" He hung his head down and just started shaking it back and forth. When he looked up he said "Kristina, I did take you to the horse for you to pet it and I did tell you to conquer your fears but I didn't pick you up and carry you down there. I didn't grab you around your waist and make you do it. I simply took you by the hand and said 'come on let's go down to the horse so you can pet it and conquer your fears' and you willingly walked down there with me and did it."

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I stood there watching them as if I was watching a tennis match. My head went from looking at Kristina to looking at Jason and then just as if he hit a ball onto her side of the court I looked over at her and she said "Well, yeah, so that's what I said!" At this point we all started laughing and she leaned over, kissed him on the cheek and said "What can I say, I like being dramatic!"

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You know, sometimes we can be so dramatic about trying to explain our sin. Instead of just accepting the conviction we are given we try to justify it all and explain to God why we did what we did. Proverbs 28:13 says "He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy." It doesn't matter what sort of spin we put on the story. It doesn't matter what type of spice we add to the story. At the end of the day the action that we did, the words that we said, the path that we took was wrong. We committed a sin. We shouldn't conceal it. We should confess it, accept God's mercy and move on having learned from that experience.