I think of sudden changes in direction and preference as a conversion of sorts.  Fly fishing and fly tying were two that happened to me when I was about 16.  Fly fishing jumped on me when I was at Dog Island for spring break (by the way – American troops prepared for D-Day and the storming of the beaches of Normandy on the beaches of Dog Island. The Great General Omar Bradley was there for the training.)  I saw my friend casting a little popper to try to catch bream.  I thought it was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever seen.  Determined to learn how, I did so by reading and studying The Practical Fly Fisherman by A. J. McLane until I had it.  It was a real conversion that is still with me today, and it made my life more fun.  But the one that happened seven years later changed my life now and forever.  Compelling hobbies, activities, and work are fun and meaningful, but Jesus Christ is Lord.  I can live without the hobbies but without Jesus…