But all it takes is one foolish, busy-body remark to foul things up. Insert me. While talking with the mom of one of Jakob's friends after the band concert I decide to go outside of the general 'I'm fine, how are you' and decide to make small talk (or I thought that's what I was doing) and ask her how she felt about her son moving in with his dad next year. (She's a divorced parent.) Well, apparently the news hadn't gotten to her yet!! Red-faced, embarrassed, I wanted to dig a hole and crawl in. The worst of it was, the look on her face. She was going to cry and it was my fault. All I could do is say I'm sorry, I don't know what I'm talking about, Merry Christmas and move on. What the heck!! What was I thinking? Where did that come from? Why in the world did I bring that up!!?!! Jakob and her son are good friends but I can barely remember her first name.
Lesson learned, or at least I hope so. I now have some new prayer items on my list.
1 comments:
Oh! That's terrible. Not you, the whole situation. Though the story about that time mom broke the news to Timmy's mom... may be a little funny someday.
I hope their family finds peace and that if you can't avoid her, that you have wisdom with words.
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