My Faith Walk...Line Upon Line, Precept Upon Precept

   Many consider one specific time in their lives when Messiah made an impression on them. For me, it has been a series of events. Each one has brought greater challenge and clarity, narrowing His calling for me.

   I believe I have known Jesus was real since I was four years old and recall being aware of His presence in a vague sort of way in my Lutheran Sunday School days. In Vacation Bible School one year, we sang and spoke of a verse from “Take My Life” each day, which I recall resonated in me in a way I didn’t then understand.

   I portrayed Mary at a Crucifixion play called “The Terrible Meek” while in confirmation class in 9th grade that had a profound impact on me.  I came face to face with what it would have been like for Him on the cross and for Mary watching it all and felt both His grace and compassion for us, for me. 

   In college and early work experiences, I struggled with those who ridiculed my Biblical worldview but held firm, only later feeling that I’d perhaps been too gullible and needed to reconsider. Other people didn’t seem to incorporate their faith into their workplace behavior or decisions so perhaps I had been foolish?

   In and following graduate school, I learned all the typical mental health and social work viewpoints but held on that underneath it all it was still “but for God.”  While serving as Sun ...