"The speaker was really funny," Garrett began. "He started out by introducing himself as a mannequin. Before he came onstage, all you saw was this mannequin dressed like him, wearing a t-shirt with refrigerator magnets on it that spelled, I have issues.

"Yeah...don't we all?"

"Then offstage we heard this voice speak for the mannequin, "Sorry, guys. I'm a little stiff today. It's hard to move. Apparently...I'm allergic to Botox."

 "That's funny," I said. "I may have to use that someday." It doesn't get more spiritual than that, I thought. This is what I sent my son to a conference for?

"He talked a lot about the issues youth deal with, but when he was finishing, he took the magnet letters on the mannequin's t-shirt and changed them around. He said we can't be free until we remove our flesh from our issues."

"That's so true." 

"So, he took the two i's out of the words on the mannequin's shirt. And then he changed the remaining letters to spell He saves us.

Garrett saw my face was still processing the visual.

"Get it, Mom...The i's represent our flesh. When he took those out, I have issues changed into He saves us."

"Oh, that's awesome."

"It was pretty cool. He also talked about how God can't use us until we remove the i out of other issues like sin, pride and idolatry."

Issues...As if I needed another reminder! God had been dealing with me all week about  read the rest