As I sit in the Robert R.McEwen Atrium I find myself writing the first blog here. I have so much to say and my 3.5 pounds of grey matter are finding it difficult to organize exactly what I want to say. I am waiting for my mother to finish her exercise class in the multi organ transplant center and am fortunate enough to have found this hot spot graciously provided by Starbucks coffee. Using my existing internet provider I am able to easily connect and sit on this comfortable lobby furniture.
When you get busy with life, you start to forget what's really important... Reflection and direction. The whole reason I started this blog was because I literally hit a brick wall when I recently learned that a good friend of mine is sick... Very sick indeed. I am fortunate to have her in my life, and have seen her family as a great role model for my own.
I met Marilyn several years ago, as a confused and troubled teenager I was finding an online world of IRC an oasis for my troubled mind. I dabbled in drugs and alcohol as some teenagers do. But then one day while talking on IRC I stumbled into a room I had not been to before #christians there I met and conversed with a person named mskipper. She poked and prodded me with one question after another.. where are you from, do you believe in God etc... I became intrigued knowing that someone out there in the world was finally interested in what I had to say... Some of my response perhaps was untruthful but as a teenager hidden behind the firewalls and computer screens I felt safe and sound and free to be who I wanted to be, not who I was... Conversation after Conversation I started to take her advice and search for this fantastic "God" that she was so passionate about sharing. My road to Jesus may not have turned me into an evangelist but it certainly steered me away from a life of drugs and alcohol, a path I was already well on my way to sharing with my teenage friends.
More on this later...
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