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First Things First: Born Again/Being Born

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 Born Again:    These words are heard everywhere, even the world knows the phrase. But what does it mean, really? How does it change my life from not knowing to following Jesus and becoming a Christian, a believer? And why are we discussing this instead of being a wife… because this part is who you are, eternally, and that doesn’t change being married or single and that is an important thing to cling to and be steadfast with.     I was standing on a little rise from the large creek in North Carolina witnessing my Granddaughter be baptized. As a Christian for the last 51 years, this rite of passage is familiar, almost common.  We were in a public park with some glancing our way to see what everyone was looking at and I thought, “what would this look like to a passerby who had absolutely not frame of reference for one adult dunking another adult underwater and everyone applaud and whoop?” I laughed at the actual absurdity of the act in the minds of other...