My grandma Adriana had a particularly revolutionary experience of conversion, even more intense than my mother's. They both experienced what we call the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I have also had this experience, but not Melissa, who is just way too grounded in common sense for anything too interesting. Anyway, what happened in our lives is a huge and overwhelming experience of God's love, power, peace and joy in our lives in a way that is completely self-sustaining and also in a way that completely sustains us. They met and palled up with some students visiting from Canada, from Toronto, actually, and they were also charismatics and really wanted something more and deeper and more full of life and joy than what was being offered at L'Abri We also all had a strong desire to serve the poor and vulnerable, and at L'Abri they were more interested in international students from affluent families.
"You were too wild for them", says Sarah.
"You could say that. Anyway, it was also in Switzerland where mom met my Dad. He had just been attending the annual convening of wealthy global movers and shakers in Davos. Mom was working in a café in Geneva and let's just say that he charmed her off her feet, and away from her faith To this day, Mom insists that in order to marry my father she had to first abandon Jesus. In fact, in later years, she came to describe Dad as being absolutely satanic. Adriana would have nothing to do with him....
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