In retrospect of the long and curious journey of my spiritual life, I can see now how my seeking after God has been a quest that has taken the majority of my years on this Earth. But it was only sixteen years ago when that seeking coalesced and crystallized into a choice to follow after Christ.

As with many things however, those first few years were, well… interesting, to put it mildly. Downright strange and bizarre in fact. Yeah bizarre even by my own standards…

But the Lord provides. And He sustains. Always. Sometimes in ways that we can’t fully appreciate until a long time later, and that is certainly what I have found in recent years especially.

Something that was an encouragement for me during those first few years were the brothers and sisters at Elon College’s InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Every Tuesday night was an evening of praise ...