Explaining my life

Today is Sunday, I don't know which.

I'm in Alaska now, Juneau my hometown. I went to a fire at some friends hoouse last night, folks from the BCM (Baptist College Ministry). I had a great time there, I cooked a hotdog on a very large hotdog stick, it was a very big branch with a few points on the end of it small enough to skewer a hotdog (a hotdog spear). I also cooked two marshmallows. I love fires, I love being around a fire, watching fire, feeling it's warmth. I especially like being around fires with other people, and listening to them talk. So this night was very fun for me! This was my first fire in Juneau as a Christian so that was neat!!

The leader of the BCM group likes to ask people questions and so she got to asking people to explain a little bit about their lives... I think I did a pretty bad job of representing myself... questions like "Who were you in high school?" "What did you want to be when you grew up?"

In high school I was an average student, I liked English class, and I especially liked band. I really wanted to continue being a student, learning and having fun with friends. I had a lot of fun in high school, but I was also a very sad and confused person a lot of the time. After high school I went to college, I lived in a dorm with some new and interesting people who I had never met before and had a lot of fun but I ended up failing in school. After I failed school things really took a dark turn in my life. Things were very bad, I had encounters with evil, with sin, that damaged me very much and turned my life's path downward even more.

But God saw fit not to leave me in such a confused and hopeless state. He brought me from the darkness, from the pit of despair, to a very loving church in Idaho where I could hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and be brought back to life and light in God. I was given a Bible and began reading it and slowly realizing the truth about God.

Oh, but now I am not at that very loving church in Idaho any more, I am back in Juneau. I have been getting on a downward turned path again in my walk with Christ... encountering things that I thought were dealt with already! Sin is sin, and if it's not dealt with it will kill my spiritual progress, put me back a long ways from where I want to be. When sin comes I deal with it, recognize it for what it is and end it. It's been coming in from various places again, so now I've got to deal with it.

I want to read my bible, to grow in the truth, to walk with Christ. I want to be a friend of the Christians I have met in Juneau. I want to write on my blog, and I want to play my trumpet.

Love in the Truth!

Jeremy Brown