D is for Do-over: A to Z Blogging Challenge 2018D

D is supposed to be for Debut if I were following the AtoZ Team prompts like I said I was going to do; however,  I'm being another D-word--one that aptly describes me: Difficult. 

Okay, so I'm not being difficult, I'm just having a difficult time writing about debut. So I'm deviating (another D-word) and  using my own D-word.  It's one of my favorites:  Do-over.

I believe in second chances. I believe people can change. I believe in do-overs.

I first heard the term listening to the audio book,  "The Red Hat Club" by Haywood Smith.   In the book she described the twelve traditions by which the characters abided. Well, except the MYOB tradition (#5, "mind your own business," which everyone ignored). For those of you that have read the books, that's sort of a paraphrased quote from the book.

The Do-over tradition is much like the church's teaching of repentance and forgiveness: once you have realized you have done wrong (sinned), you repent (turn away and refrain from repeating the offense), ask forgiveness, and are viewed--at least by God--as justified (just as if you'd never sinned).

And that's how their do-overs worked.  When one of the characters tread too close to the edge of no turning back, rather than proceed forward and risk ruining a relationship, they would call a do-over, and everyone involved had to abide by the rule that no one brought up the incident again. Just as if it'd never happened.

This actually could have been an F-word post:  Forgive, be Forgiven, Forget the offense.  Since I used it here in the Do-over explanation, I probably need , to come up with something  different if I'm not fond of tge F-prompt.

Back to the D-word here's a pseudo-haiku about do-overs:

don't sweat the small stuff
forgive and be forgiven
call a do over

I'm gaining on my catch up posts.  Next stop:  E