Classic Mary Moments: I jumped!!!

Friday, July 31, 2009

I jumped!!!

So the other day Jestina, Esther and I were swimming and the two girls were jumping in off the diving board. All of the sudden I just had this urge to jump but I havn't jumped in like years cause I am like SERIOUSLEY scared about it!!! So I get outta the pool and head to the board. The girls are like, what are you doing?! I am like "I'm gonna jump!" and they start screaming!!! LOL but when I step up on the board I get sooooooooo FREAKED out!!! I am like NOOOOOOOOOO I can't!!! They are like oh come on Mary PLEASE!!!! Please jump!!! They are like beggin me but I just can't get up the nerve to ACTUALLY jump off!!! They are like just think your man is in the pool waiting to catch you!!! I am like okaaaaaaaay thats NOT working!!! HAHAHA!!! They are like beggin me to jump and Esther is standing there holding my hand sayin I'll jump with you and I am just like I CAN'T!!! They are like EVERYONE we know jumps off the diving board!!! So I am like well it's cause I'm white, thats why I am sooooo scared!!! They are like THATS RIGHT!!! If you were black you would jump off...uhhuh!!! Then, they teasingly start taunting me; White girl! White girl! White girl!!! HAHAHA!!! I am like soooooooo laughing now!!! Finally I like look over at Esther and I say; If I jump what am I gonna get from you?! She knows what I am talkin about...she thinks about it cause she knows there is only one thing I really want and thats for her to live for God....She says, I am gonna try Mary and at least while I am at your house I will dress right...I know that if I jump it doesn't mean that she will actually hold true but I want to prove to her just how important it is to me that she lives for God!!! So despite the fact that I am still TOTALLY scared...I think about my girl and then I JUMP!!! I go all the way to the bottom of the pool and up!!! When I break up of the surface the girls are screaming and laughing hysterically!!! Esther is like, Snow! Snow!!! SNOW!!! I am like WHAT?! She is like you went all the way down and it just looked like there was snow at the bottom of the pool!!! HAHAHA!!!

I was like REALLY proud of myself! I did it five more times that day and three times yesturday. Its weird cause every time I get on the board I am still scared, but every time I still jump!!! I think sometimes that the only thing that makes us conqueror our fears is LOVE!!! :)

The Votaws!!!

He has preached all over the US, China, Taiwan, the Philipines, Vietnam and many more Asian countries. He preaches in underground churches in communism countries. He converted a man on death row in prison to Christ and 3 hours before that man died he baptized him in Jesus name. He prayed the first man in Vietnam to kill and americn soldier through to the Holy Ghost and Baptized him in Jesus name. He has converted trinitartin preachers all over to the Oneness doctrine...BUT ABOVE all else...I thank God that I TOO am ONE OF THOSE souls he reached out too...he gave 7 years of his life to New York City!!! I thank God that he answered the call!!! It wasn't until his 6th & final year as pastor there, that our family came into church...we were there for 9 months before we came to AZ and then right after that the Votaws left NYC for the mission fields of Asia...I THANK God that someone had a burden for NYC!!!

Sis. Kathy!!!

This is the woman that invited my Momma to a Pentecostal church!!! She told me that she was actually new in the church herself and that she would see my mom in the front yard of our house playing with us kids and she just wanted so badly for my mom to have what she had just recieved herself. It may have been just one person that she was witnessing to at that time, but that one person has had an affect on her own five children and now its her Grandchildren that are still recieving the blessing of Sis. Kathy's witness. 25 years ago, it wasn't just my mom...I may have only been two at the time, but it was ME she was winning too! I thank God she wasn't afraid to be a witness and that she didn't give up on my mom. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. (Acts 2:39) When you decide to live for God it doesn't just stop with you!