Emphasis Preaching Journal

First of all, the chain had come off the sprockets on his bicycle. Then, when he tried to be a big boy and fix it by himself, he had gotten some grease on his hands and just a little bit on his shirt. He knew that his folks would not be happy with the grease on his shirt, so he had decided to put some cleaner on the shirt. Unfortunately, he had grabbed the wrong container from the closet, so his shirt looked worse now than before he tried to fix it. In other words, Nathan did not have a very good day. To his surprise, his parents were stern but forgiving about the shirt.