Non-Refundable

Abraham and I have a returning problem, and I mean that in two ways. We are always buying something and then returning it and this happens with half the things we buy (we are currently trying to find a receipt to return unused honey to the grocery store). Well recently we bought paint to add some color to our walls. We've been watching House Hunters and the people always seem to make a house look 10 times nicer by simply painting the walls. I spent a long time in Lowes looking and comparing trying to find the perfect colors. Once we got home and I started painting I got nervous like maybe I didn't get the right blue and it doesn't match my house. I felt anxious and guilty because I should have never spent money on something I wasn't 100% sure I wanted. I looked down at the paint can and saw the words "mixed paints cannot be returned and are non-refundable". Although that is an obvious disclaimer, it still made me feel trapped. I did something I can't reverse....

This made me think of the atonement. What Christ did for me (for all mankind) can be applied to so many situations, that's why it is so powerful. In this case I thought about repentance and how no matter what we do we can 'return' whatever it was we did. How great is it that we CAN return our mistakes and Christ is SO WILLING to take our burdens from us so we can be refunded the happiness that was lost.