Baptism

Baptism. Its a public affirmation of the Christian faith.

I have yet to be baptised though. I know this may sound odd but I just never got around to it. Recently I've been giving it some serious thought.

Ideally I'd like to be baptised in my church back in KL because I grew up there. However, that means I'll have to attend classes for three months... which is not possible as I am now in Melb.

I do attend church in Melb but I'm a smidgen hesitant to get baptised in this particular church. 

It is usual practice for those people getting baptised to testify in front of the congregation about how they came to know God.

Most people have a coherent story about their walk with God.

Mine is somewhat disjointed and it incredibly random.

I can't tell you when I first came to know God.

I know that He is with me, always has been and always will be.

There was however, a period of about three or four years where I couldn't bring myself to speak to Him.

I suppose I needed time to find myself again.

It took a long while but I did eventually make my peace with God.

Strangely enough, a month after that I met my better half... and it was under such an elaborate set of circumstances ... that we can't help but be absolutely certain that God had a hand in it.



So... I'm not entirely sure what sort of testimony that is going to make...

Or whether it constitutes a testimony at all.

I'm planning to get baptised in 2010. That's when someone I really want at my baptism will be in Melb.



On a random note, my Communications lecturer used to tell us that narratives (e.g. stories) are unnatural constructs. We force incidents and occurences into a set, rigid order to make sense of the world around us.