Savd4one's 1999 Pontiac Grand Am SE

i was raised Catholic, graduated from a Catholic high school in Philadelphia. After graduation i dabbled in a little of witchcraft - which was just a passing phase. what i had read about it, i didn't like and decided it was for me. i never did any spells or anything it was more of just a "research" project. it was in 11th or 12th grade that i was talking to my aunt in alaska was asking me what i wanted to do with my life. i told her of my music collection - which has now grown to more than 500 CDs and i can't tell you how many tapes. i also told her that i wanted to be a radio personality and she got all excited saying that i could get on Christian radio. well, that was the LAST thing i wanted. as a senior in high school, even though it was catholic, i wanted nothing to do with anything christian.

so we fast foward to 1997 and i decided that i now wanted to go to college (bloomsburg university in pa). in those years i was still talking to her, i even visited her in alaska for 2 weeks, all the while she was planting little seeds in me to get me saved. so i get to college and in the first two months i found (by accident) and started attending a student Bible Study. at the very end of the first semester my roommate and i were argueing everyday, i had 3 term papers due in the last week (i had NEVER written a term paper and had no idea what i was doing) i was stressed out about grades and thinking of leaving after the term ended, i was home sick. so i went down to a friends room and unloaded on her. she promplty told me to go get changed (i was in pj's) and meet her in the lobby in 10 minutes, that i was going to church with her and she wasn't going to take "no" for an answer. she knew the problems i had been having with my roommate all semester, i was stressed out with finals and needing to study and papers to write, but she didn't care Smile. there was a local church that was having a puppet show outreach service. i think it was an Assembly of God church - not that it really matters what kind of church it was. but during the service, there was this unbelievable peace that came over me. everything that i had been taught about God's love and peace i had finally understood and it all became clear. this is what i wanted. i wanted to be God's child. at the end of the service, the pastor called for an alter call and i raised my hand and went up and i gave my heart to the Lord that night. afterwards, when i met up with my friend that brought me, she was so excited and happy for me, but i really hadn't yet realized what i had done. because i had grown up catholic i didn't know what an alter call was, or being saved or that you had to do anything to get into Heaven. it was just assumed that because i was catholic and had been baptised that i was automatically going to Heaven. so it completely boggled my mind as to why she was so excited. two months later, in october, i was reading something in Revelations and had a few questions so i decided to call my aunt in alaska (again lol), asked my questions, got the answers and said "oh by the way, i have one last question, how do you know if you've been saved?". so she told me and i said "well i already did that in august" and told her the story. then she cried and said, "then you're saved!" Smile