Let me just start out by saying wow, it's been a while since I blogged. The only good reason for my absence is that I've been busy. I haven't given up on my blog, though. In the future I really believe I will blog more.
Obviously, a lot has happened since my last post. It's been 6 months. I don't have time to tell you everything, because I am leaving for Mexico in a few hours (whoo!) and I have stuff to do before I leave, such as take a shower, clean my room, mani/pedi, etc. So, lets get right into the point of this post.
Yesterday, (Sunday, July 14th, 2013) I got baptized. For the third time. I never thought I would be baptized so many times, but each time was special in it's own way. I'll try and quickly run through each baptism in order.
Baptism #1
I believe I had just started 6th grade, but I may have been a little bit younger than that. I was currently attending a United Methodist Church. At this church, when you turned a certain age, it was common to go through several weeks of "confirmation class." During this class, you learn all about what it means to become a Christian. It was actually really informative. At the end of the classes, they ask everyone if they want to be baptized. I really did want to be baptized, and I was so excited. At the time, I really didn't like water, (I still don't love it) so I opted for a "sprinkling" rather than full immersion. I was baptized, and that was that.
Baptism #2
My second baptism was a few months after going back to a church that I went to when I was little. I think my baptism was on July 29th, 2009. My reason for this baptism was because I felt like I needed to be baptized with full immersion. My mom baptized me. In between my first baptism and my second baptism, I grew a lot in my walk with Jesus. The first time, I was a "church goer" and someone who loved God, but that was it. The second time, I knew a lot more about serving God, and I was serving God. I "thought" that I knew all about what it meant to be a Christian, but I was wrong.
Baptism #3
I've been going to my current church for 3 years. I have learned SOOOO much about God since going to this church. My third and most recent baptism was yesterday. Thursday night-Saturday night I was at a youth conference with my youth group. It was absolutely mind-blowing. On Saturday morning there was a really powerful message about baptism. It touched almost everyone in my youth group, and we all wanted to be baptized. So, that's exactly what we did. Yesterday morning, 14 youth got baptized at my church. Almost all of us had been baptized before. For me, this baptism symbolized the new relationship I have with God. It's a completely different relationship than what I had the last time I was baptized. It also symbolized me burying my past. You won't see many more posts about depression, because that was drowned. I won't get angry at everything, because I left anger in the water. I am made new!
I would like to end this post by saying that I realize some people don't believe in being baptized more than once. If that's your opinion, good for you. Please keep your opinion to yourself. I'm very happy with each of my decisions to get baptized. I also understand that a lot of people don't believe that sprinkling is real baptism. At this time in my life, I don't believe it is either, BUT, I still count that as a baptism because it was real to me at the time, and it means something to me still.
Also, I am leaving for Mexico in the morning, so expect a blog to come soon about my trip there. I am SO pumped for this trip. Adios, America!
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