Unity through Repentance: The Journey to Wittenberg 2017
Chapter 4
God’s Landmine
You’ve read Chapter 4, and you’re hungry for more? Don’t worry, we got you!
Peggy’s Baptism
In the year 2000, when Peggy was five years old, she came downstairs one day, sopping wet.
"Peggy, what happened?"
"I baptized myself.”
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What does this story have to do with Chapter 4?
This beautiful photo from the baptism shows Amy's friend Margaret in the back. She and her husband had moved back to Austin, and our daughters were now playmates!
We brushed this off as just play, but a few days later the scene repeated itself exactly.
Amy pulled me aside. "I think this child is ready to be baptized," she said.
"But does she really understand what baptism is?" was my reply.
"Do any of us?" Amy wisely responded.
So, after a few lessons on the meaning of baptism, we baptized Peggy in my parents' fish pond.
The Big Bend Trip
Amy's friend Margaret preparing dinner at Big Bend Park in 1989. I had fallen in love with Amy, and she was bemusedly tolerating me ... until we went on a camping trip to Big Bend together with some other friends, including Margaret. Something about the amazing landscape, the dark skies and canopy of stars at night, and our deep theological conversations caused Amy to begin to have similar feelings back towards me. The rest, as they say, is history.
One of my favorite pictures I've ever taken was of another friend, Andy, on the same trip. I held the camera still as Andy ran and jumped down a sand bank, clicking at what I hoped would be the right time. The resulting incredibly lucky photo has beautiful composition ... as if I knew what I was doing!
More photography fun ... one of our tents at night, lit up by a lantern on the inside. (Is that a wrestling towel hanging up on the left??)