One year later

One year ago today, at 10 pm, at the beach, in dark, cold, murky ocean water... I was baptized!

WOW.  I was reflecting on it earlier, with hopes that I would find something really cool to write about and say something about my walk with God.  Well... So much has happened, that I almost feel like I don't have something really specific to report!

I would say the thing that has changed in me the most has been my understanding of the holy Spirit.  I am still learning constantly, but i think that is the change I have expierienced-- I am learning!  I am listening, and although I have times where God has to come in and remind me to listen...

But I would definitely say that the biggest thing I have learned is how to listen.  And why praying daily is so important, and why reading is so important... and, God has showed me how amazing life can be when I make my life all about Him!

I have had some really down weeks, but in the end God manages to bring me back to Him.  The amazing people I am surrounded with keep me in check.  They are an amazing support system.  Without CIA to encourage me and to surround me I would not be accountible to living for God, and most likely would fall away. 

My change of heart and mind was not instant after my baptism.  But I see a change in myself, and I feel God's presence around me more than I ever have before. 

It seems so simple, and it's not all that interesting of a one-year report post-baptism, but, how much more epic can it be that I can FEEL God with me?  And realizing that with Him, I can overcome?  That is what I have to report after a year, and I am happy to be able to say that!

"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
-Jeremiah 29:11