| | I recall it quite clearly.
The Korean United Methodist Church, that is. The image of that brick building is burned into my memory. It had a steeple; it had stained glass windows. It was a fairly typical Methodist church.
I went every Sunday from whenever it was I began to have coherent, linearly connected memories until I left Rochester, Michigan for Seoul, Korea. I, of course - being only 7 at the time - was sitting in the children's service with Pastor.... Kim? It was probably a Kim.
Dressed up in miniature corduroy pants with a miniature Polo shirt - my mom made sure to dress me properly for our visits to the house of the Lord - I sat with a bunch of less-impeccably dressed, but equally fidgety young Korean children, listening to a sermon about sin.
"When you sin, it's like squeezing a tube of toothpaste and having the toothpaste get everywhere. No amount of effort will get that toothpaste back into the tube. That's what sin is like. When you sin, there's nothing you can ever do to take it back."
What. Horror.
To be perfectly honest, I still get afraid whenever I think of that particular sermon.
There's nothing you can ever do to take it back.
I don't know where we go from there, but I know that I can't stay paralyzed by this fear forever.
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