The Adventures of Bubba
I have never ....
experienced anything like I did sunday. I got to baptize two guys from my youth group. I have never had the oppurtunity to baptize anyone because most churches require you to be ordained but our pastor was like you are called that is enough. The most awesome part of it was when I was lifting them up from the water. It was as if I actually had a part in their new life like I was connected to their walk with Christ. One of them came up to me after words and gave me a hug and said thanks Bubba. I almost started crying but I refrained. So it was an awesome thing and I hope that I get to baptize many more in my ministry.
Swing Dancing....
is not very easy for an uncoordinated person like me. I went over to pensacola last night to go swing dancing with my friends Ashley and Jon. I also made a new friend Summer who rode with me to p'cola. So anyway I am not very good at the whole thing but there were a few brief moments where I thought I finally got the hang of it only to get excited and miss a step. I did have a great time though trying to learn and also watching the people that know how to dance do their thing. It is something I will probably do again and who knows maybe next time I will be a little better.
Just one thing to say
God is really awesome. We had another student get saved Wednesday night and I will be baptizing him and another student this next Sunday. I am so very excited about it. God is really doing some aesome stuff down here. I ask you to continue to pray for my ministry and for my students.
Just A Few Thoughts
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately so much in fact that I have been losing sleep. So now I have decided that I am no longer going to continually think and worry about things that I have absolutely no control over. I like to think that I am fairly intelligent but obviously I am not or I would have realized this a long time ago. I have hopes and dreams that I would like to have happen but they are just not supposed to happen right now. So there is no need in constantly pondering on it. God knows the desires of my heart and he will give those things in his timing as long as they are in accordance with his will. My other thought is not really a thought but a conviction. I have recently started trying to memorize scripture and it is really amazing what it can do. I have realized how important the word of God is. I don't mean that I did not think that it was important before I know understand even greater than before. The word of God is our spritual food but yet I miss a lot of meals. I don't ever do that with physical food. So as the psalmist said in 119:11 " I have hidden your words in my heart so that I might not sin against you." It is God's word along with the Holy Spirit that helps to not sin, but it says that he hid it in his heart. To me that says he knew he did not just know where to find it in a book he knew it in his heart. He had memorized it not so he could just qoute it but so he could live it because it had become a part of him. God has really stirred up a hunger inside of me for his word. I am kind of hoping that it will get my mind off a lot of these other things.
A great weekend
Well I came home for Mother's Day this weekend and got to see a lot of people. Some I enjoyed seeing, some I really enjoyed seeing, and others that I did not really enjoy seeing. With that said I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the future and that lead to the thinking about the past. I started thinking about some things that took place before I moved to Orange Beach. It was very strange because a few months before I left I really started growing distant from most of my friends and did not have a clue why. A few of my very closest friends I think I grew the most distant from, while others not as distant. It seemed the people I cared for more than anybody else were the furthest away. Then I thought that it probably happended so that I could make the decision to take the position based only on what God wanted and not let anybody distract me from that. Well the great part about it is that now that I am there some of those relationships have been restored and some I think are even better. Also while I was home I realized how much I have changed in recent months. I realized while I was at a friends house at a cook-out with a lot of people I knew. I was sitting there talking to only two people Melissa an Alan and it hit me that I did not really know anybody else(other than Melissa and Alan) there I have changed so much that I did not really know those people anymore. Some of them had been kind of close friends and now I cannot even be around them. Mainly because some of them are just fake and it took me being gone to be able to see it. While i know that some of this sounds negative I really had a great weekend. OUt of all my friends here at home I know that there are some that really care for me and even a few that care that aren't in north alabama. Anyway about the future it is starting to look pretty good because I know that God is in control.