Throughout my childhood, an act was either a sin or it wasn’t. Being saved meant asking Jesus Christ to be your personal Lord and Savior and then not messing up moving forward. If you did mess up, you must ask for forgiveness to be safe/saved. But, as I grew in my life and faith and met new people in other denominations, my firm foundation was crumbling. Today, as I sat down to write a reflection on the upcoming text from New Year’s Day, I realized it was Matthew 25: 31-46, one of my favorites. It felt like a blatant Holy Spirit moment that I use this text to continue on with the Pondering Part 1 post.