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I got baptized this past weekend

submitted by Storefront to whatever 1 monthMar 26, 2025 22:04:58 ago (+50/-3)     (whatever)

It was really such a beautiful experience. Just a big metal bucket next to a nature preserve. About 10 other parishioners. I had never been baptized and was raised by atheists. The path to belief has been really intellectually difficult for me, just overcoming a great deal of anti Christian and anti religious beliefs ingrained in me from birth. So noticing thr subtle changes this week is almost hard to believe. Lots of graphic, brutal, scary and alternately incredibly comforting dreams, which include visions of my old self dying and my current self watching. An almost disconcerting number of prayers coming true. Of course, I struggle with questions of confirmation bias. But if you'd never been baptized, I highly recommend it. I'm so happy I found a good church, as I moved out here to California for work earlier this year and thought it would be ultra liberal, but I was wrong. Anyway, just a personal story and encouragement for anyone else


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