The class that I teach on Sunday mornings had a cook out at the park last night.   Since I still don't know them very well, I asked each one of them to tell something good, or something funny about themselves that none of the rest of us knew.

What a hoot.  It was so much fun that they kept on telling things on themselves.  And when they ran out of  things to say, they started telling stupid things they had done.

One of them lived in a commune in California for a few months.  One is a closet poet and has written poetry for years.  One of them can roller skate backwards and do loops.  It went on and on.  These are interesting people.

They have one thing in common.  They have become Christians.  They are on a new journey.

There is a place of beginning again.  And it is never too late to go there.  You can put your past behind you.  You can bury it in the forgiveness of God's mercy and love.  Jesus made it possible by paying for everything you ever did wrong.  With his life.

"Father forgive them for they know not what they do," were His words as he was dying.   And God does just that.   Not because we deserve it, but because Jesus asked him to forgive us.  He took our sin upon himself.

"For while we were still helpless...Christ died for the ungodly.  For rarely will someone die for a just person, although perhaps someone might dare to die for a good person...but Christ died for us while we were yet sinners."  Romans 5:6-8

You will never find a better deal.  And it's free for the taking.