The Gift of Getting Caught

When my children were young, I remember a mom telling me that she always prayed that if her teenagers got in trouble, they would be “caught.” I hadn’t ever really thought of it before, but her point was an excellent one — if they were caught, they could experience discipline and consequences, forgiveness and redemption. On a rather interesting side note, one night when my husband was coming home from a late night on call, he ‘caught’ her son with several others rolling a neighbor’s tree in grand style. When he called her, she was completely gracious and grateful to him for telling her:).
I love this quote from Sharon Hersh on being caught…
“This book considers the gift of getting caught, because this is when we have the chance to experience being known, loved, and still wanted….we will examine the gift of humiliation that leads to the gift of surrender…we will look at the unlikely gift of woundedness, because wounds, no matter how painful or unsightly, are where Love gets in with the healing gifts of mercy and forgiveness.” Sharon Hersh, “The Last Addiction”