Today is the day..

... my life will change forever. I'm totally just kidding. It just sounded like a fun title. Anyways, yall the Lord has been so good to me! On Sunday, it was baptism night at The Village and I had the privilege of watching my special friend, Kaitlin, get baptized! Hooray for representing Christ! There were 5 baptisms and the rest of the time was worship and let me tell you something, it was so beautiful!  I felt as if God's heart was so close to mine and I became so overwhelmed I didn't even know what to do. Beautiful. That's the only word I can think of to describe it. I'm so thankful for a Father that still longs for my heart even after all of the hurtful and disappointing thoughts and actions that run through my head everyday. I'm so thankful for grace! I would like to leave you with this little note by St. Augustine, which is in the book I am currently reading called "finally alive," by John Piper. 

{I flung myself down beneath a fig tree and gave way to the tears which now streamed from my eyes... All at once I heard the singsong voice of a child in a nearby house. Whether it was the voice of a boy or a girl I cannot say, but again and again it repeated the refrain, " take it and read, take it and read."

So I hurried back to the place where Alypius was sitting.. seized [the book of Paul's epistles] and opened it, and in silence I read the first passage on which my eyes fell: "Not in reveling in drunkenness, not in lust and wantonness, not in quarrels and rivalries. Rather, arm yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ; spend no more thought on nature and nature's appetites" (Rom. 13:13-14). I had no wish to read more and no need to do so. For an instant, as I came to the end of the sentence, it was as though the light of confidence flooded into my heart and all the darkness of doubt was dispelled.}

- St. Augustine

[Augustine was born again. He never turned back to the old ways. The Wind blew in a garden. It blew with a child's voice. It blew through a word of Scripture. And the darkness of his heart was dispelled.]

-John Piper

Have a happy day!