The trail begins with my parents and my baptism as an infant in the Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n
The next footprint I see is a \u201cStand up for Jesus\u201d pennant that I must have received from church, but I only remember sitting on a rock at the corner of Chatam and Tireman in Detroit, waiting for my mom to come home from work and waving that pennant while I waited.\u00a0 It was 1968 and the Detroit Tigers had won the pennant.<\/p>\n
Then there is another partial print when I was in early elementary school and attended VBS with a friend from school. My memory of that experience is the final night when all the crafts were on display. I distinctly remember stealing a gum drop off a \u201ctree\u201d, a branch mounted in plaster and decorated with gum drops.<\/p>\n
Looking back I see praying. Every night. First\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cNow I lay me down to sleep,<\/p>\n
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.<\/p>\n
If I should die, before I wake,<\/p>\n
I pray the Lord my soul to take.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And then the Lord\u2019s prayer. Every night.<\/p>\n
When I was in middle school my next door neighbor and babysitter mentioned that I should look up Young Life when I got to high school.<\/p>\n
I did. The leader of Young Life couldn\u2019t believe my babysitter told me to do that, her memory of my sitter was of a camper who cried every night.<\/p>\n
November my freshman year in high school I attended a Young Life fall retreat. That is when I used to say my journey with God began.<\/p>\n
Looking back I understand now that the journey began when God \u201cknit me together in my mother\u2019s womb\u201d.\u00a0 The trail I can see is not complete, a lot of the road I traveled isn\u2019t clear to me.\u00a0 The Sunday School teacher who gave me the pennant, the VBS teachers who put up with me all week, none of whom I can remember at all\u2026they were all part of the path.<\/p>\n
Seeds were planted.\u00a0 Watering was done.<\/p>\n
And eventually, new growth, birth.<\/p>\n
Do you have young children?\u00a0 This is a long journey, and it began with God\u2019s idea of your child.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know when you\u2019ll see the new growth, the birth, but I do know that to get there it will require some planting and some watering, lots of patience and total trust.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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