Girl3 Fills Her Bucket

Monday night is family night in Chez Five. Tonight, Mom was telling us one of my favorite stories about Christ - when He found a group of men accusing and threatening to stone an adulterous woman. He challenged them, saying that whichever man among them had never sinned could throw the first stone at the woman. Mom wrapped up the story and tried to make her point by asking all of us, "...but is anybody without sin? Are any of US perfect?"

Girl3 sprang to her feet, offering an enthusiastic, "I'm po-fect!! I'm po-fect!"

Everyone laughed, and I stashed that treasure in my memory bank. But Princess Perfect has a point. Maya is innocent and unaccountable. She doesn't have a full knowledge of who she is yet, but she has the faith to simply not question her own worth. Without hesitation, she will stand and declare that she is amazing and beautiful and pure. If someone were to disagree with her, she probably wouldn't remember her Accuser after an hour, and even if she did, she'd forgive them in an even shorter amount of time.
I wish we could all have that faith. I wish we could all remember exactly who we are, and I wish we all had the confidence to stand up and declare it whenever the opportunity arises.