8-6-87

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On 8-6-87, I made the most important decision that I will ever have to make in my life.
It's a decision that I hope each one of you reading this has made.
And if you haven't, it's a decision that I hope you will consider making today.
Because, one second after you die, it is too late and we are never guaranteed tomorrow.

On 8-6-87, at the age of 11, I made the decision to accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior.
As I write that date, I cannot believe that it was almost 22 years ago!

I have a horrible memory, which most of my friends and family will attest to. The details of that day are minimal. In fact, I had to look up the date in my Mom's Bible because that was one detail that I couldn't remember.

When I was a little girl, we went to a wonderful church that truly was like our family. I went to Latham Springs church camp with the other kids from our church that Summer. I don't remember alot from church camp. It seems to me that there was a huge cliff on the walking trail that you could look over and it was a huge drop and supposedly someone had fallen off of it and died. I remember a little stream that you would cross on the walking trail. I remember sleeping in bunk beds and waking up in the middle of the night and telling my friend that my bed was wet and asking if I could sleep with her. Turns out, her bed was wet too. Some of the guys had opened the door to our cabin and sprayed us with a water hose in the middle of the night! We found out what had happened the next day.

I don't remember a lot about why I decided to make that decision that day, but the one thing I do remember is calling my Mom with the news. Do y'all remember what it was like when you fell in love? Do you remember that excited, tingly feeling and how you just knew that no one else in the world could be more in love than you were at that very moment? Do you remember how you just knew that because of this new love, your life would be forever changed and that nothing would ever be the same? Well, that's how I remember feeling that day. In the very depths of my soul, I knew that my life would never be the same. I knew that I had made the right decision. I was overflowing with love and excitement. It was a joy and a happiness that I had never felt before.

On September 27, 1987, on my Mom's Birthday, I was baptized at church. Little did I know, that exactly 17 years later to the day, I would literally fall to my knees and cry out to my Lord like I had never done before and ask him why He had to take my Mom away from me. I didn't understand how He could do that to me. The next day, she was gone.

It didn't take long for me to realize that there was no way I was going to make it through my grief without Him. And what I realized, is that He had never left me. He was just waiting for me to come back to Him. Even when I was angry with Him, He never stopped loving me.

It was a long journey for me to get to where I am today. Today, I feel that same excitement that I did 22 years ago. I will forever be glad that I made that decision. It was the best one that I have ever made! It truly is one of those things that you just can't possibly imagine until you experience it for yourself!