FINALLY!!
Meditation of the Day:
I was baptized this morning. It was everything I hoped it to be and nothing I thought it would be. I received no overwhelming blasts of emotion or deep premonitions. I heard no bells and saw no doves and no angels.
It was so peaceful, yet AWESOME in its simplicity. The swaying green canopy of leaves overhead. The soft trickle of the brown shallow river running right through me as if I werent there. Though the morning was cold, the water felt uncommonly warm. My testimony came out effortlessly as if it had been waiting, damed-up, this year and a half. Waiting for me to just open my mouth.
Under the water I immediatly felt the usual spine chilling sensation cause by submersion in cold water...then nothing. I forgot everything for a brief moment too small to measure. It was then that I felt...something. It was so small I should've missed it, but still it was there. I believe it was "truth". Not a truth that put right all wrongs and sealed all doubts. No, this truth was less an answer and more of a kiss. A very gentle, split second kiss.
At the time I couldn't articulate it accept that it felt "Holy". Perhaps because the experience invoked a memory. Possibly the earliest memory I can remember. It may have been a memory of my first baptism. The one I wished to God I could remember. The one which was renewed this day. I feel that today I received the smallest morsel of the Eternal Banquet of which I was not worthy. It has left me so hungry for more. So hungry for the truth I felt. I feel I will never have such a perfect moment until I die.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
-Paul, 1stCorinth 19.9
God bless you all.