Higher Obedience

I was sitting in my classroom last week with a few people around me. We are talking about one of us whose kid was doing his “sacrament of the Eucharist” (I think that’s what it is, French: Sacrament du pardon). So basically, the title of the sacrament calls for “forgiveness”. So I asked my friend (a was a little sarcastic obviously, but…) “Your son’s going to ask forgiveness for what?” my friend answered something like, “… About bad little things he’s done…”. My friend then said, “You don’t need to do that, you don’t sin” (she was being sarcastic a bit too). So it gave me the opportunity to tell her and the two other people in our group that it was not because I was a Christian that I didn’t sin anymore, that actualy, I was quite aware of my need for forgiveness and I did ask for it everyday, that I didn’t need to go to church to be forgiven, that I had a personal relationship with God. Ends up that one of the guys around said, “Hey, my girlfriend’s a pastor’s kid too!” He thought it was quite random. Anyways, I think it’s so strange how some people think and do things just because of tradition when tradition means nothing to you right now.