[alpayton]

I am Christian - Southern Baptist denomination. Baptized when I was 12 just months before my grandmother passed. Found out the night I dedicated my life to the Lord that my grandmother had been praying with my pastor about this event for the prior few months and that she told my pastor that she would not leave this planet until I had found my way. It was two weeks following my Baptism that she went into the hospital and never came out. She had been diagnosed with cancer around 6 months prior for the second time in her life and her treatment was failing. She and I were very close and while we discussed God and the church, we never discussed my decision or the fact that I had made up my mind. She was so happy the day I left the pew and went down front in church. My family had always been so very active in church. My grandfather was a deacon for over 40 years before his death. I try my best to live my life so that my grandmother would be proud, but I do right by God.