April

And would you believe it has been 18 years since my last confession?? Pull up a chair, this may take a little while.

During lunch today, I took a small walk down memory lane with my grandmother. She had apparently been going through some of her papers over the weekend and had found some photos from when I did my Holy Communion and then my Confirmation a good few years ago. Looking at the picture, all I could see was the innocence that I was then still able to hold onto. Life was simple – I had only just started to work out what boys were, had good grades at school, a great group of close friends, and was surrounded and supported by a fairly close catholic family.

We spent Sunday at church, went to Sunday school and I was part of the choir and a girls group which was a bit like the catholic version of the girl guides. And once a month we went to confession and asked for forgiveness. I remember always making up thing for confession – which is something I probably should have been confessing about – but I only ever had trivial things to tell the Father.

Looking back at that picture now, there is a whole lot of stuff I should probably confess… but the Father here in town is an old, old man and I don’t think the poor guys heart could take it, but then I think that he has probably heard a lot worse than I could ever tell him.

But I have done things that I am not all that proud of, things I look back on now and cringe in shame, and then there are things that would make other people blush – the same things that make my heart beat faster and a tingle of excitement run through my body.

My theory is, that instead of giving the priest a heart attack, I will share my confessions with those of you who read my blog… so when I get the chance I will write up my first little confession to share with you all.

But where do I start?? Maybe I should start with the Ten Commandments because I know I have broken some of them over the years, and I can think of one that I broke multiple times during this mornings early hours ;)