The Box I Checked "Yes" On My Grandson's Field Trip Chaperone Form RedeemedExistence daily devotional, October 30, 2026 My daughter handed me the chaperone form last week with a pen already clicked and ready, so happy that her boy wanted his grandfather along on the aquarium trip that she did not think twice about what was printed near the bottom. Have you ever been convicted of a felony. I sat at her kitchen table a long moment with that pen in my hand, because the honest answer is yes, and because checking that box in front of her felt like handing her a piece of paper that could take the whole morning away from both of us. I checked it anyway. I wrote the explanation in the little lined space they give you, three sentences about something that happened nineteen years ago, and I mailed it in not knowing if anyone would ever call. For four days I walked around with that box sitting in my chest like a stone, not because I was afraid of the answer the school would gi...