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Do You Know How?
When my dad died of cancer I dropped out of church activites. I never was much of a go'er anyway. My son started getting involved in a scout organization so a friend of mine perked my intrest in working with his scout troop. Just so happened to be sponsored by a church. As I became more active in the troop it seemed natural to get involved in the church. So as I became intrested in teaching scout skills and merit badges to these young folks I learned some skills myself. One skill was CPR. I took my family on vacation and one the trip we made a side trip to a state park in Florida. At the park was a spring with cold water about chest deep and the size of a large swimming pool. Some folks were playing when all of a sudden they started yelling for help. One of thier ggroup had caught a cramp and drowned. Using the skills I learned just 2 days before I was able to bring the guy back. Scary feeling. My family was amazed, my son and daughter asked where I learned to do that, my wife said thank God you were here. Then it hit me. What I learned, the reason I had joined the scouts, become interested in the church was to teach scouting skills, I didn't know much about how to teach Jesus skills. That day changed my life. I recognized that Everything happens for a reason and that absolutely everything works as God plans it. That was almost 30 years ago. I remember everything about that event and when I can I share this with the young folks in our youth program. I am not a hero. God put me in a place to learn and skill and then used it to teach me a lesson. He gained a worker in the vineyard, I gained enternal life.
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