Feb. 22, 2007
My Spiritual Journey 1
Okay. I'm going to take a deep breath and attempt to write about my spiritual journey.
I was saved when I was either 8 or 9 years old, when I was up in an old mimosa tree by myself, talking to God. At church camp I told one of the counselors about it. I didn't get baptized because they said I wasn't ready yet. (That seemed strange to me that a Baptist church wouldn't readily baptize someone!)
Nothing had seemed to change about me. Our church attendance started to get less and less. Then we just stopped going, occasionally visiting other churches with friends. One time that was a bad thing.
My friend and I went to the 'kids church', and when it was time to sing, I started to sing (like a good little girl) and my friend says, laughing, "You're gonna sing!? I'm not gonna sing - we don't have to!" Kind of shocked me. I felt like an idiot the rest of the time I was there, and felt really hurt. I always had trouble singing in church after that. It was stolen from me - like the scripture says about the enemy. He comes to steal, kill and destroy. I'm still recovering.
I was saved when I was either 8 or 9 years old, when I was up in an old mimosa tree by myself, talking to God. At church camp I told one of the counselors about it. I didn't get baptized because they said I wasn't ready yet. (That seemed strange to me that a Baptist church wouldn't readily baptize someone!)
Nothing had seemed to change about me. Our church attendance started to get less and less. Then we just stopped going, occasionally visiting other churches with friends. One time that was a bad thing.
My friend and I went to the 'kids church', and when it was time to sing, I started to sing (like a good little girl) and my friend says, laughing, "You're gonna sing!? I'm not gonna sing - we don't have to!" Kind of shocked me. I felt like an idiot the rest of the time I was there, and felt really hurt. I always had trouble singing in church after that. It was stolen from me - like the scripture says about the enemy. He comes to steal, kill and destroy. I'm still recovering.