My Friend's 'EmbarAssing Moment'

I have a wonderfully hilarious friend who posted on fb about an incredibly awkward situation- as she put it, and I quote: an "EmbarAssing Moment"!





In her own words: she "was in (a city) the other day...stop to get fuel and leave some H2O...payed my bill to a male clerk...leave...female clerk comes running after me in the parking lot...'scuse me Mam, but you have some TP hangin out your pants'...so I look down at my feet..."Mam, not there", she says...it was hangin out the top backside...then she tells me the male clerk sent her out here to tell me...I about dies right then and there...and those of you who really know me know that it takes a lot to embarass me!...I bet they had a good laugh!"





Awkward for my friend, the male clerk, the female clerk--- maybe even some reading about it!





Follwing her post- there were several reactions...some felt 'sorry' for her situation...some found it amusing...and some shared they would not have told her, and some shared they would have told her (my friend was GLAD she had been told before she went out into the rest of the world in her condition, unaware).





So where would you land in the discussion. I guess I would agree with my friend- I would ultimately want to know. Embarassing as it would be in that moment of revelation- ultimately, I would want to know if my TP was showing! (My grandma would let us know when our 'slip was showing')





What about when what is showing is even bigger and more glaring than TP, or a slip of a slip? And on top of that- we are completely unaware of it being there, let alone, that it is something SO showing?





The LORD has placed me in Fellowship with Him and His other Followers, in part, to loving let me know when the slips show... Proverbs 27:6 says "Faithful are the words of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are lavish and and decietful."





I am SO thankful that the LORD doesn't want to leave me wallowing in sin...but will gently reveal to me areas of sin in my life- He convicts me, in a comforting way; in such a loving way- that how can I say 'no' to allowing Him to come into that part of me and do a little surgery...put on some Holy Spirit balm...some rest...then some therapy...healing. It is an amazing process. No pain/no gain. Sometimes you just gotta face it- and deal with it....





After all, who'd really knowingly want to walk around in life, always with honking strips of TP hanging out the top backsides of their lives?





Maybe today you need to be the friend- do what you are to do in love, out of the love, grace and mercy which has first been given to you. If you are the one with your 'slip showing' or TP hanging~ accept the word of a friend with thankfulness and graciousness.