"Mom, I just switched the pink card with the chocolate to be mine so I could jump ahead," whispers Joel in a confessional booth kind of way. "Oh," I respond, "Well, you should put your gingerbread man back to start then because you just cheated."
"Nooooo!" exclaims my handsome little five-year-old.
But with a little prompting, he pads back over to the colorful, candy-inspired sugarland board and places his blue piece back at the start. What started out as an innocent game of Candyland ended in a teachable moment about repentance.
You see, according the faith of our Jewish forefathers, confession is in the telling, repentance is in the correcting.
For those of us who believe in the repentance of sins we may have no trouble telling our God about our misdeeds, but are we willing to start all over, even when it could mean losing out on something important?
My hope is to be like my son, running to my God as soon as I mess up and correcting my mistake to demonstrate true regret and repentance.
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