Who You are...

And I look and it has been almost a year since I have popped in here and today actually celebrated the birthday of a 12-year-old...the same sweet boy from my last writing...

My thoughts today had been of this morning at church where they held baptisms...and while I love watching these individuals take a step of faith recalling my own baptism in a stock tank...but I was caught by a precious little girl in a pink dress taking it all in   She was held in the arms of I am not sure if her daddy...her uncle...but someone who held her as she watched some she seemed to know be baptized.  Those she watched...a woman and two girls...that I couldn't help but think was her family of some sorts...partially in the joy the man seemed to show on his face watching....and also the intensity in which she watched!  I feel she was not certain what was happening...and this thing called faith from those looking on...sometimes perhaps it is puzzling...something that is sometimes not something that can be explained...but instead experienced.   

I am not sure what captivated me so...perhaps recently having a conversation with someone of a memory when I first remember hearing of this Jesus...I maybe a little older than this little girl when I was at my Aunt Vi's for what it seems may have been Vacation Bible School...but I recall this older girl...I think probably a teenager...and though I don't recall her face...or her name...I remember sitting there on the green grass with her holding me on her lap and just the feeling of joy and love that she held...and she asking me if I wanted Jesus in my heart.   I remember saying yes, I do...and that started this journey that I continue on...I don't feel that my faith was just this one moment in time but more an ongoing transformation that has held valleys and mountain tops along the way.   But through it all...yes...I still want Jesus in my heart.   Though sometimes as an adult...oh to have that childlike faith!  

I had come across an older writing where I had described who God is to me...a piece of my heart written on a picture...

And a song that goes with it...Who You are to me by Chris Tomlin and Lady A...

And my mind goes to a little Firecracker...of a very hard time in our life...already 14 years ago...but in a special service and baptism a little one gave sign language for MORE...and I think of this and pray...MORE...for those I love...as well as myself...

Today 3/16...and there from the book of John talks of God loving us so much...He gave His Son...yep...that would be this Jesus that is in my heart...

lyp