.......Did I say CHANGE? What a complete understatement! More like a U-Turn, a flip flop, a complete change of direction! A change of heart a change of mind a priority reversal a PARADIGM SHIFT!!!! But before I go there let me go back to the decision process.
When my family was looking for another church and before the final decision was made about where to attend, I was meeting with Pr. Mike Hall of Grace Church. If I remember correctly we were getting together once a week on Tuesdays, discussing the church, the beliefs, the ministry opportunities, etc.
One of those Tuesdays Mike told me that he wouldn't be around the following week as he and another Pastor were traveling to Haiti. They had important business there because the Haitian who oversaw the work in Port-au-Prince had passed away. I told him I'd pray for them and went on my way.
Well on the ride home I turned the radio to WRBS, our local christian station in Baltimore. I remember very clearly that the preacher was talking about Matt 28:19...Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. For the rest of the day, I'd see a green light...GO... The words of that verse kept running through my head! You know the Holy Spirit can be relentless when there is something you need to do.
I had trouble sleeping that night. The word go kept going through my head and I was trying to come up with all the reasons I shouldn't go. When I finally did go to sleep I dreampt of a place I'd never been, people I'd never met and a little girl who took my hand and lead me around. She was talking to me but I couldn't hear her, yet I knew what she was saying.
I awoke at 2 in the morning, called Mike and told him "I'm supposed to go with you". His advice, " you are welcome to go along. Call me in the morning and we'll talk about what you need to do.
Having given up, having said that I know that I am suppose to go, I finally got some sleep.
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