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[saint701]

Hello Christianity Oasis, All...

Blessings!

I got saved. All the things I learned about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ became reality to me when I came up out of the water in the baptismal well. That was wonderful of course, but it wasn't long before my new reality suffered a blow.

One strong indicator that your repentance, confession, and baptism took hold is a sudden willingness to give however you can wherever you can. My parents had given me a toy gun for my birthday that year, and as I was want to do because I was a real live boy, was play with whoever wherever. That day I came upon a very poor boy at his house. He was my age and a classmate. His name was Billy. I noticed that he didn't have any toys of his own to play with so I gave him my toy gun. That was good and I remember feeling lifted in the spirit for my act of kindness.

That, however, only lasted until I got home. "Where's your gun?" That was my dad asking me where my gun was.

"I gave it to my friend Billy," I replied.

Of course that didn't sit well with my dad. Even though he was raised a poor farm kid, and even though he took a pocket full of coins to school each day to buy the lunches for poor farm kids, he made my much, much older brother go and retrieve the gun. Of course I was deeply saddened by my dad's decision. The good news was that puberty hadn't struck yet so I had a few good years left before that nightmare overtook me.

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Blessings!
Love, In Christ Jesus, Saint701.