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My youngest daughter has a remarkable habit of doing things that leave me wondering what happened to all those previous conversations we have apparently had.
This morning, I came downstairs to discover that the freezer had been left open. On other occasions, I have found food sitting out on the kitchen worktop, cupboard doors left wide open and, rather more worryingly, garden gates and outside doors left open too. Usually, I stand there, raise my arms slightly and look at her with the expression every parent eventually perfects.
“How can you not understand?”
I have explained it before, more than once. Close the freezer. Put the food away. Shut the gate. Close the door. None of this seems particularly complicated, and yet somehow we regularly find ourselves having exactly the same conversation.
Perhaps that is why one particular sentence from Jesus has started making me smile whenever I encounter it in the Gospels.
“Do you still not understand?”
Apparently, Jesus knew the feeling too.
