It seems that all my bridges have been burned. But you say that's exactly how this grace thing works. It's not the long walk home that will change this heart. But the welcome I receive with a restart.
I think we've all experienced the "walk of shame" in one way or another. It's returning home after straying. It's coming back after betraying your first love. It's walking away from what you should do, doing what you want to do, and then returning to real life. And of course, there is the obvious definition.
But taking that walk doesn't mean you changed. It doesn't mean you've turned away from the thing that you were doing. In fact, I would guess that most people talk the walk of shame expecting (if not planning) to do the same, shameful thing again the next chance they get. But even if they truly are ashamed and they never want to do that thing again, they probably will. It's who we are. It's what we do.
No, true change does not come from within. Think about the problem with that idea. You cannot pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. If you really wanted to be something different than what you are, you would already be that. And that's why my faith is so important to me. I have a father that always welcomes me home from my "walk of shame." And it is in His welcome back from my mistakes that I find the power to become someone different than I was before. Someone better.
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