The Summer I Found Grace on a Back Porch

Every summer my Great Grandma Would host a

Bible school on her large back porch for one week. It was called a five day club. A college kid would come for a couple hours every day that week and all the cousins and neighbor kids would gather around and hear stories and learn verses.

We would have fun together and share a snack. These were some great core memories.

I can almost feel the green paint of the porch

Under my fingers as I type this.

One of those summer morning a young girl shared a story about how broken I was. And how naughty I was and no matter how good I was I would never be good enough To get close to God. But Jesus loved be, and he was perfect, sweet and kind he he took all of my naughtiness and got punished for sin an died on the cross but didn't stay dead. He rose again.

This absolutely blew my child mind.

The next morning I decided to get some clarification from my mom. She was doing her hair on the bathroom Mirror. She explained how I could claim This free gift of salvation that Jesus gave me. All I had to do is tell God I Knew I was wrong and had messed up tell him I was sorry and ask Jesus to come live in my heart.

So before anyone knew what was happening I knelt Next to the bathtub like it was an altar and accepted Jesus into my heart.

If you haven't yet accepted Christ to be your savior today I encourage you to take this story into consideration and make today the first step in you story.