Tomorrow turns a new leaf

Tomorrow I am being baptized again, but this time in a lake.

I was first saved and then later baptized when I was 9 years old, but it didn’t mean much to me; I didn’t do much with it. What good is buying a new dress if you’re not going to wear it? Why become a Christian if you’re not going to tell the whole world about it?

I should have died 6 years ago in a traumatic accident I was involved in. And it wasn’t until just a few years ago when I started piecing things together that I began to realize why God didn’t let me die. . . and what it is I am to live for.

God didn’t save me so I can feel sorry for myself. He saved me because there are suffering people all around me who hide in corners and inside their homes because they’re afraid of what people might think of them. There are girls who are too scared to look at themselves in the mirror because they don’t think they are pretty. And there is Susie— a girl who used to hide in corners because she has brain trauma, a girl who used to be too scared to look in the mirror because she can barely walk-- but who has so much joy inside of her and loves those people

We use our tiny eyes to see enormous things and God uses the small to do great things

When I was in the hospital, God spoke to me and said, “Susie, you will always be weak. But I will always be strong for you.”

And just recently I have been called to missions over in Iraq--to learn their language and tell the murdering, Iraqi soldiers who killed my friend years ago that there is just as much hope for them as there is for me.

I am called to love like Jesus loved

And tomorrow I am turning a new leaf; I am being baptized like Jesus was baptized

Down in the water by His friends.