Lessons from Lewis

I love a good whodunit

You know the type of story

A good detective mystery

One that taxes the brain cells

As you are going around in circles

Last night I watched one of my favourite series

Lewis

On ITV 3

With Kevin Whatley and Laurence Fox

The episode was ‘The Vanishing Point’

Where a chap gets murdered in his own bath and then we discover it was a case of mistaken identity

And who was the murderer?

The wife

The husband

The son

Daughter

Sun Tan shop owner

Sun Tan shop owner’s wife

There was a plethora of suspects on the list

It turned out to be

The wife’s lover who was also the husband’s best friend.                  

Yes, I know

It is almost unbelievable

But there you go

Stay with me!!

Any way he was caught because forensics

(What did the police do in the days before forensics?)

Found his dinner jacket, which was hidden under some floorboard

With the traces of the victims blood on it

And when he was asked by Lewis why he didn’t dispose of the dinner jacket

The murderer answered

“The problem is that I hang on to things I should let go of!”

And as soon as he said those words, I knew exactly how he felt

Caught out because he couldn’t let go of the things of the past

I still struggle with ‘letting go’

The hurts

Wounds

Disappointments

Rejections

Moments of injustice against me

And

The times I let people down

When I didn’t keep my promises

Didn’t keep my word

Acted out of frustration

Said the wrong thing

Lashed out in anger

Didn’t think the best of the person

Gossiped

Lied

Judged

Condemned

But God is working in me

And little by little I am letting his grace free me

His spirit change me

As I rely on his finished work at the cross

Believe his word

And rest in all he has provided

It is a journey

A long and slow journey

But one that I am taking with the greatest companion

The best adventure I could ever take.