Old Gems....

You know when your doing a clear out of a room and you find an old toy or something that you use to absolutely love.... I had one of those moments today....

Of course I wasn't cleaning at all so by saying that I had one of those moments is actually a complete lie and I apologize for that... But still I found my old Bible!

It was great to see it again, I wasn't really sure if we were on speaking terms or not still with it being shoved onto a book shelve all the time and seeing me spend more and more time with a younger slimmer version of itself. But still lets put my old Bibles emotions aside and think about what amazing things that old Bible holds.

It holds all of my understand of majority of sermons that were taught in my old church, they have the doodles of random things in majority of gaps on the page of the Bible which I would draw during the sermons where I didn't take notes.... But other all it has my youthful look on Christ in there.

Looking through it brought me back to a time where I was a "young" person and sitting in the back row was the only row acceptable to sit in... any other would be just an embarrassment and only sitting next to my friends was allowed.

Ahhhhh old times..... Challenging times...... Times where I thought that if I stepped out of line here I would be literally killed, (i always wondered why there wasn't many youth around in the Church) so I tried to be on my best behavior.....

It was going well, sitting in the back row minding my own business until it was time for collection and me taking the 10% rule of tithing very literal I put in a ten pound note and started fishing for change.....

BIG mistake, the lady in front of me turned around and started saying that it was all wrong and that she thought I was stealing. I panicked grabbed my change and passed the basket on.... with my head as low as it could be starring at the lowest thing on the floor that I could find.

But the thing is if I didn't do that I wouldn't of been noticed by the church pastor at the time and he wouldn't of came up to me and invited me into his home with his family and help me along my journey.

It took a mistake on my behalf to start my journey properly.

This old Gem of a Bible will sit on my shelf now until it is needed again, but it will always sit as a reminder of times of uncomfortable measures, of times of insecurity and overall of times of family.

The Bible will sit as a reminder of all things that helped me become who I am today.