My God Moment, 2006, by Crystal Ponce

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Who: Crystal Ponce
What: One Moment
When: July 8, 2006
Where: San Antonio, Texas

This summer I went to San Antonio, Texas. Little did I know this would change my life and ways of thinking. We went for Luther League, it was a gathering. The theme was called “Cruzando”, which is Spanish for “A journey with Jesus”. It was my first year joining Luther League and it was also my first gathering. The other junior girls which included Kassey, Sara, and Paige Steele, had gone to a couple in Chicago. None of those compared to the one in San Antonio. It was held in the Alamo Dome, and was filled with about 20,000 people from all states. Everyday when we got back to our hotels after long days of walking all over San Antonio. We would have to share a time during the day where we felt like God was with us. It was about midnight everytime we would get back to our hotels. Everyone was grumpy and tired. I remember everyone just wanting Dean Eaton to talk fast so we could go to bed. The first time Dean told us we had to share a God moment I sat their and thought to myself "I don't want to, I'm too shy or embarrased, people will probably laugh at me." I didn’t exactly know what to say either. I thought everything I would say would be wrong or stupid. I did Confirmation at St. James but I really hadn’t gone to church since. My family goes once in a great while. So I wasn’t that big on religious stuff. When my turn came around I thought about what to say long and hard. Then it came to me, my God moment was when we were in the Alamo Dome and a song came up, all the lights were off. I didn’t really know many of the songs like the other girls did. I turned around and everyone had their cell phones in the air and you could see thousands of tiny lights. It was amazing, the feeling was like it was suppposed to be and it was perfect. After I shared that with everyone no one laughed at me it was a sigh of relief because they felt the same way. God was with us all.