Happy Birthday, Doc!

Sitting in the dentist chair today, I waited as bravely as I could, as the dentist gave me eight hits of Novocaine. Really, Doc! Was there a sale on that stuff?

So here he is, bent over me, with a needle in hand. All the while he was administering pain relief, he was talking to his assistant. Apparently, it was Doc’s birthday and he wished he could be 35 again—News flash, Doc. I would like to knock a few years off myself, with my deep cleaned teeth intact, thank you very much.

He said he would like to have an undo button so he could go back and do a few things differently. Didn’t he know he doesn’t need an undo button? But since my mouth was full of fingers, needle pokes, and a suction doohickey, I lost my opportunity to tell him. Why? Because as soon as he was done, he ran out of the patient room to give pain relief to his next victim—I mean, patient.

Since I had lost any sensation in the right half of my “head” I couldn’t have said anything, even if he had stuck around. However, my heart knows, a missed opportunity is a missed opportunity.

Next time an opportunity presents itself, I will say to him, “In one heart-felt prayer Jesus’ forgiveness—His undo button—wipes away sin, guilt, and regrets forever.”

I’m pretty sure if I had told him that, he would have felt younger.

“The gospel of Christ grants us freedom from the condemnation that still hunts us daily (Romans 8:1) The gospel is so powerful that it doesn’t have to undo our past sins. Instead, it redeems them and turns them around for our good and for God’s glory.”—a great quote is taken from Desiring God.org.