Naughty by Nature

Mrs Goode started it, calling me Mrs Norty and telling the children in Reception that was my name.  Much later, long after my new name had stuck and even my husband was calling himself Mr Norty, I realised it's actually quite an appropriate name.  I am naughty, we all are.  That's our nature. 

I don't work at the infants school now, but now and again I still like to call myself Mrs Norty.  It reminds me of my natural naughtiness.  Reminds me that the God who created the universe and knows me inside out, the same God who put a towel around his waist and washed his disciples feet, is the same God who chose to die to save me from my sinful nature.

Norty by name, naughty by nature, forgiven by grace... humbling!