I don’t eat crow on holidays

I enjoy the holiday season because of the food I get to eat. From Halloween to New Year’s Day, the focus is food. Some of the best food of the whole year is during this time.
In true confession, throughout the rest of the year, I eat Crow almost every day. It is a diet developed by The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. It has taken some time for her to create such a diet for me, and she’s done a marvelous job.
It took me quite a while to understand this diet of eating crow. But if I understand it correctly, it means admitting you’re wrong and were not right about what you thought or a statement you made to others. That’s quite a definition, and I’m not sure I understand it even today.
I must admit that throughout the year, I vehemently made statements that were not true. It’s not how many true statements I make throughout the year but the false statements I make that matter.
Sometimes, we will be with a group of friends, and I’ll be telling a story that happened recently, and then in the middle of that story, The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage will jump in and say, “No, it didn’t happen that way.” Then she will correct my story, and I’m standing there eating crow.
Sometimes, eating crow is worth the situation you find yourself in. I don’t always create chaos in my life, but I try to make the best of it when it does happen.
During this holiday season, I don’t have time to eat Crow. All of the beautiful meals that are set before us have my attention all the way through.
The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and I are a fantastic team. She loves to cook, and I love to eat. What better partnership can you have? All the crow I eat during the rest of the year is worth all the holiday meals at this time.
I must confess that The Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage is very careful how I eat Crow. She rarely lets me do it in front of people. I may be telling some story, but she doesn’t correct me when people are around.
On our way home from that gathering, she will begin the conversation by saying, “Soooo, is that really how that situation happened?”
Usually, I’m not sure what she’s talking about, and I respond by saying, “What situation?”
Driving home from one of those meetings, she was quiet for a moment and then said something to the effect, “Well, did you get all the mistakes I made in that story I told?”
She told the story and twisted it so much that nothing was true, and I never recognized it. That made me think she could get away with anything as far as I was concerned. Now, that’s a different piece of crow to eat that I’ve never had before.
Thinking about that a verse of scripture came to mind. “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy” (Proverbs 28:13).
Probably the hardest thing I can do is to confess my sin and ask for forgiveness. However, it is the best thing to do. Eating crow sometimes is worth it.

Dr. James L. Snyder lives in Ocala, FL with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. Telephone 1-352-216-3025, e-mail jamessnyder51@gmail.com, website www.jamessnyderministries.com.