Two months ago I was seeing someone who wasn't necessarily good for me. I came to my friend Shoe for advice thinking he could give me some answers from a male point of view. The response that I got from him was unexpected to say the least. He asked some questions of me that really made me take a step back and look at myself in a way that was different from what I had anticipated. He allowed me to look at myself as something more than just "in the moment" and allowed me to see a bigger picture. I asked him where this difference in him had come from? He said that he had joined PCC and that he was learning about God, and when I was listening to him talk about God I could sense that his passion was real, his excitement was genuine, and I'd known him to be a non-believer. So to see this change take place in him so quickly was awe inspiring. It made me stop and think, I mean really think of the choices I was making.
I've know of God since my childhood, but we stopped attending church regularly when I was 10 or 12. And somewhere along the way the lines got blurred and what God wanted of me became less and less clear. I drifted further away from following Christian values because those weren't the values of the world I was living in. I thank God I had my mom to talk to, so that I never really lost faith, just kinda lost my way. I knew my mom had faith but I couldn't make her faith my own. When I saw Shoe's transformation I knew that God's hands were all over it so I told him that I wanted to check out his church cause something amazing must be happening there to have such an impact on him. I hoped it would have the same effect on me.
I was hesitant about going thinking, do I have to dress, look or act a certain way before going? But finally I came to "Sunday Service at 5:30" and found all different kinds of people who love God. I went to La Tartine afterwards and right away I felt comfortable and welcomed. There I met people my own age that I could identify with. After that I felt the need to change some poor choices, and I ended that unhealthy relationship and started to work on a more important relationship--my relationship with God. When I was 10 I wanted to be baptized but for some reason it never happened. My desire to take that step and to publicly announce that I have accepted God into my life once again became overwhelming. This past Sunday I got that opportunity. It may have taken 14 years to actually be baptized into Christ, but it was well worth the wait.
