The Week After Being Baptized

        Well, it has been exactly a week since I was baptized and let me tell you: It has been a week! When I say that I mean it in both a good way and a bad way but mainly in a good way now that I see the end of this week. I never want to give up the feeling that I felt this week for anything in the world.        No matter what went on at work I kept going.
        My energy tank was full and I was happy for 8 hours for most of the week. Friday I did kind of get a little stressed out but I think I kept it pretty good under control and it was nearer to the end of my shift. I just kept doing what I love to do and every day just seemed to go by fast for me. I was trying to keep the children busy and it was working for me too. Sometimes I just don't know how people can just sit around and watch the children or even just play with them. When I do that, the day goes by so slow for me. I just felt the energy of God just going through me everyday and I loved it.
         I also felt happy and more confident then I usually do. Confident in what I was doing with the children and it only took me a morning to set up the lesson plans for me and I never went back to look at or change them again. This was the good thing about my week and those were all signs from God.
       I also had some sort of hard times but I got through them better then I have in the past. I think God was just seeing what I would do if He finally gave me to answer to something that I have been praying about in the past. You know what? He did and I am happy with the answer. The answer came, of course, God and His sense of Humor, on Monday but it didn't bother me one bit this week and it made today a better day. Let's just put it this way. I felt like I had two choices to chose between and God did the choosing for me. Love it when He does that!
        Know I have no doubt in my mind that the choice was the right one but I still have to work on it a little bit, which is something I did tonight. I was also called "a God-Person" by one of my co-workers and I took it as a complement especially after my baptism. I couldn't believe it! My co-worker just said I seemed like a God-Person and I will admit on the inside I was saying Wow! Thanks. That is what I want to be and hoping to be but on the outside I just said thanks and smiled.
Then this co-worker told me that she believed in God but doesn't go to church so now I know that I need to be extra careful on how I act in my room. Not that I act bad but I could have a little more patience and things like that.
         Then tonight I did something with total confidence and comfort. To be honest, I usually doubt myself when giving people gifts or letters but tonight I didn't doubt it a bit before and I don't doubt it at all now. I know I did the right thing and God will do the rest like He always has done and always will. This week has just been just a total different feeling then I ever felt before. I feel like I don't have anxiety anymore but I'm going to wait to check and see if I don't for a little while longer. I just getting use to this new feeling and I need to know how it feels and why I am feeling this way so I can keep do it without the meds. If that makes sense.
         I feel like a whole new person. Isn't that the way we are suppose to feel when we give our lives over to God. In me, there is a new creation and that creation just wants to pour out over people and just love them to no end. Keep in mind this is coming from a very shy girl indeed. I have seen God do  3 things and even more that I can't remember but I know noticed that day in a week. Just think of what He can do in a lifetime. To be honest, again, I have seen that over 8 years and I will continue to see that as long as God let's me.
           If anyone reads this that knows me for the 4 years that I have been in AR or for longer you know these feelings are new to me altogether. I couldn't have done it all on my own. God did send some people into my life that has helped me through all kinds of problems. I could't be thankful enough. From people that I wanted to change for because I knew it would be best to just family members that been through the same things has I have or am going through right now. It is better to have a lot of older siblings in your life.
          All this to say: I can't wait to see what God has in store for me for the rest of my life! I'm trusting and depending on him for everything. He is, totally, the center of my life now!