A convert's return home through baptism

The author shares a personal testimony of conversion and baptism in the Orthodox Church. The post opens with a rhetorical question drawing on the parable of the Prodigal Son: whether the Father waits no matter how far one has wandered. The author quotes Luke 15:24, where the father declares his lost son dead and alive again, lost and found.

A second quotation from Romans 6:4 connects baptism to burial with Christ and rising to newness of life. The author then states personally: after all this searching, I am finally home, and gives glory to God.