re: #59 Decatur Deb

It’s easier to simply redefine “good” to match my behavior. Lying is about the only sin left.

Do you know, people do that quite often?

I learned that lesson early on. A friend of mine was allowed to see Elvis movies IF she went to confession afterward.

I was not allowed to see Elvis movies, so I thought that was a GREAT way to handle things, and suggested it to my mom.

She thought it was QUITE ridiculous to use the sacrament of confession as a “license to sin”, and made that crystal clear to me very quickly; as well as making it crystal clear to me that we should NOT, as you put it, redefine “good” to match our own behavior. I had a good Mom.