My Baptism

I was baptized this week!!!! On Palm Sunday no less, which is the beginning of Holy Week.

There is so much back story to everything that led up to this day that I don't think I can fully convey here. What matters though is that it happened. And despite the deception that kept creeping up in my mind that I was alone, I wasn't! When I finally got to see them all my heart was so happy. My mom, dad, and all of my JIPsters were there to support and celebrate with me!!!!

My baptism is a public expression of an inward confession. It is a chance to publicly show that I am a follower of Jesus Christ. I was baptized as a baby which is great (double coverage) but every decision I've made in the last six years has been my own choice to follow Christ. So my baptism should be a chance for me, when I'm ready, to make that declaration. I couldn't have predicted this but I'm glad that my baptism happened when it did, where it did, and with whom it did. It even worked out that the minister who dunked me was the one person at the church who knew me. Oh and guess what...they pronounced my name correctly when they called me up to the pool! I have no idea how they did it because I didn't write a phonetic or pronounce it for Amy Lynn, the pastor's wife. Maybe Jeremiah (my minister) told her before hand, but that just added to the specialness and perfection of the day for me.


I feel like I'm lying as I write this because it's so unbelievable. On my hurried drive back to Chapel Hill to meet my housemates for our presentation I saw the most amazing thing. It's not common to see this in Durham. I can't remember a time in 23 years that I ever did. As I was sitting a the light to merge onto I-40 I saw a white dove. Just one, flying right above the bridge. I love it when God puts his stamp on something. Just in case you weren't sure, He has a way of making it clear that He's in the mix.

"And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God."- John 1:32-34 KJV

THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!!

~Adwoa