I won't lie to my daughter. I'll tell her I've tried a lot of things. I'll tell her the real dangers, and what's been lied about like weed. I'll tell her that I know these things first hand and she should be honest with me because I will always be honest with her.
It's like of like Steve Martin in the movie Leap of Faith, when he's confronted with all of the crimes he's done by the police....
He says...
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Everything you said is true; absolutely true. Yes I was born to lowly circumstances. Yes, I ran with a bad crowd that taught me to smoke weed and steal. I hung out in bars and I hotwired cars. I grew up mistreated, so I lied and I cheated. I learned hard crime, and I served hard time. I have walked that crooked road, and I have danced with the demon Satan.
I've been face down in the gutter and looked up into the face of God. And I say to you tonight, if you want to give up the bottle, who you gonna talk to? Someone whose never touched a drop? And if you wanna give up womanizing, who you gonna talk to? Some pale-skinned virgin priest? If you wanna give up sin, and I believe everyone here tonight wants to give up sin, who can lead you off that crooked road?
You need a real sinner people. A sinner of such monumental proportions that all your sins wrapped up in one, couldn't possibly equal the sin of this king of sin. Because you know, if he can walk that straight and righteous path, if he can go from grit to grace, from sin to sanctity, from lowliness to holiness, that you with all your every day sins, can rise up like an Angel and ride that golden elevator to God's own penthouse in the sky.
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