I know I introduced myself before but since this is a secular blog I did not introduce my spiritual side. This picture reminds me of the day I accepted the Lord. You see, I had believed I had accepted him when I was nine. All my friends had accepted him so I went along and did it right along with them. I don’t know anyone who got baptized around then had truly accepted the Lord, I certainly hadn’t.
When I went to college I was to quote Jesse Duplantis, “I was lost as a goose in a fog.” Freshman year I had a brief romance, passed my classes, didn’t get to take any classes that really interested me. Instead, I had a lot of freshman level courses and nothing really on the topic I was studying for. Sophomore year I finally got to a class in the area I am came to study for I discovered I was pitiful at what I had seen as my grand calling. I was also discovering I was a “small fish in a big pond” as is often said. I guess I didn’t see that freshman year because I was in love. So I switched majors the first of many times. I had a lot of heartache going on that year. I considered suicide that year and had made the final plans, I was ready, but was tricked into promising a friend who was no longer in school I would wait for her visit. She had broken her leg, after all how long would it take for her leg to heal and her to come down?
Sometimes God has a sense of humor, he trapped me into making another promise, one I never intended to keep. Dan saw to it I was keeping it four days later. Somehow I was in the back seat of a car heading for St. Francis DeSales convent. Dan had engineered the trip and gotten a lot of people to write letters. On a sunny day I found myself in the convent garden with a bag of mail. One of the letters was from a girl named Joyce; she included a business card sized card that said, “You are a child of God … call home.” When I opened the letter the card flittered out and landed in the buttercups. When I read the card at first I thought it was the dumbest thing I had ever heard. Then, suddenly, it made sense. That is the day I actually accepted the Lord!
