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The 99 and the 1

My story begins when I was 10 years old and I had attended 

a VBS with a school friend. I was raised catholic but my 

mom didnt mind getting me out of her hair for a week so she

let me go to VBS at a bible believing church the summer of

74. On the last day of the program there was a celebration 

and baptism at a local lake. I remember playing on the beach 

while the pastor was performing baptisms of people who had 

registered prior to the celebration. I remember when he gave 

the open call to walk into the water, I stopped what I was 

doing on the sand and walked straight to the waters edge, 

and there I was baptized. I didn’t know what came over me. 

It felt so wonderful. 

The following weeks found me at the local 

pool calling the kids to get baptized in the water. I wanted 

them to feel what I felt when I went in and came out of the 

water. I would say " come on you got to feel this" 

Well, needless to say,  when I dunked them under and they 

came out they were like 

"What’s the big deal?" 

I couldn't understand why they didn't feel what I felt. 

After the  summer of 74 turned into fall I went 

on with my life up until I came across a Christian man at my 

place of employment. At that time, 1988, I was 24 and 

looking for enlightenment through the new age movement. 

When this Christian man challenged what I was following, I 

challenged him right back with, what else, scripture. 

I said to him, "Doesn't the bible say if God has 100 sheep 

and 1 should stray He will come after me?". Matt 18:12

(Ya I laugh now too.) It was at that time I realized, 

"He is coming after me!" 

and I remembered that day on the beach and the summer of 

74 and I realized what happened to me, what I felt and tried 

to make others feel. 

I had not thought of that summer since it happened,     
   
I realized at the moment I accepted Jesus as the Lord of my 

life, it was the Holy Spirit come upon my life that 

I had felt in the lake when I was 10 years old, and that's 

when I understood why the others at the pool didn't 

  "feel it.  

This is my third time being baptized.

When I was an infant, I had no control of what happened to me.

When I was 10 yrs old, I had no idea what happened to me.

Today, with full willingness and knowledge 

 I choose what am doing, and I rededicate my life to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior, 

with these witnesses from Fellowship Alliance Chapel.  

These are His people, 

this is my family

And I want the world to know.  

Our baptism. August 26, 2018

LEFT IT IN THE WATER

and I can still feel it!

  

The memory of a dream.

I remember those days. 

They are  like the memory of a dream I had forever ago.

They brush my heart like the ever so soft butterfly wing.

So slight and brief as the winds blow it onward. 

And I wait here, silent and still, 

holding tight to the memory, longing for its return, 

while I watch the clouds roll in.

 And I fear the delicate encounter  is no match for the storms that lie ahead.  

Thus, my heart sinks as the beauty slips through my fingertips, 

and I am left  wondering if it will ever return.  

Will it ever stay?  

Was it just a dream?