Five Minute Friday - Cancel

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One word. Five minutes to write about it. This is the idea behind Five Minute Friday and this is today's free-writing post.

if you need to cancel

cancel culture

cancel the debt

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I'm tired of things being cancelled. Sick and tired of it. I hate canceling plans or canceling appointments, no matter how good the reason. It just doesn't feel right to pull the plug on something that needed to happen or that someone was looking forward to. 

And part of the reason I'm late posting this week (only part of the reason!) is that I took my daughter to a dentist appointment this afternoon, only to find out that it was cancelled and we had to reschedule. They said they'd tried to call and let us know that they had to move the time of the appointment but we never got that message and showed up at the original time, which was a half hour later. It wasn't our fault, but the appointment was cancelled and our plans messed up anyway. It wasn't really the office's fault, if they'd tried to contact us, but they still had to make apologies and hope we wouldn't be angry.

Cancellations just stink. 

But then, I stop to think about it. There's one kind of cancellation that I'm okay with. A cancelled debt. Knowing that a debt has been fully paid and I don't have to worry about it any more. Or even more amazing, a debt that I could never pay but it's been looked after for me and forgiven. That's the kind of cancellation that wrecks me and saves me at the same time.

Alas! and did my Savior bleed

And did my Sovereign die?

Would he devote that sacred head

For sinners such as I?

Was it for crimes that I had done

He groaned upon the tree?

Amazing pity! grace unknown!

And love beyond degree!

Refrain:

At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,

And the burden of my heart rolled away,

It was there by faith I received my sight,

And now I am happy all the day!

But drops of grief can ne'er repay

The debt of love I owe:

Here, Lord, I give my self away

'Tis all that I can do.

Words: Isaac Watts (1707)

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This post is linked at Five Minute Friday for the word prompt "Cancel".

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