It's Never Too Late

This weekend our church held its baptisms after every service. I was volunteering when I saw this elderly man slowly walking up the stairs towards the changing room. His neighbor and dear friend escorted him up. I was briefly speaking to her about the man...she told me while rubbing tears off her eyes that he just decided to get baptized. He's 94 years old. He hadn't been going to church for 60 years and decided within this past year to attend Eastlake Church. She continued to tell me that he had a bad experience at their previous church, but since coming to Eastlake he's felt a sense of comfort. With each smile and greeting he received, a little of the "old" him chipped away, and I guess today the "new" him had the courage to stand up and announce his love for Christ and get baptized, at 94! What an awesome, awesome thing that was to witness today!

Writing Opportunity

This past week, my husband and I received an invitation to join our church's eDevotional ministry. Well, with acceptance of our writing sample, this would be a perfect opportunity to share what I love; God through writing. How cool is that? I am excited to be able to write and hopefully inspire others who are Christ followers and those who haven't found Him yet.

Non Fictional Blah

Okay, I've been festoring over writing a non-fictional piece and it's driving me nuts. It's funny how we have tons of non-fictional books at home that my boys have collected through interests in snakes, spiders, dinosaurs, planets, and on and on...you would think I would be inspired by them. Nope. Why is it so hard to write something that's true? Factual? Oh, it's because we have to back it up with research. Yuck! I give it up to authors who write in this genre. Although all the information is right there, it's not as easy as it seems. Siting resources is pretty tough and writing to make it your own is even harder. I think on my camping trip this weekend I'm going to bring my writing journal just in case I get inspired!