There is a skit used in many evangelical Christian circles such as churches, youth groups and camps where there is a person sitting on a stool with Jesus next to them. The stool represents the power to make decisions in the person's life. The person on the stool asks Jesus to take it from him, but he refuses and tells the person that she must give it to him. The idea of ​​the sketch is to show that God will always be there, pursuing the person, but that it is the person who must decide to follow Christ. Augustine certainly experienced this in his life. God relentlessly pursued Augustine through the pleasant and painful events of his life, leading Augustine to make the decision to finally accept Christianity and follow God. One of the main ways God pursued Augustine was the granting of a vision to Augustine's mother. , Monica. She desperately wanted her son to be saved and did everything she could to make that happen. Yet she knew she had virtually no power to do this without God's help. So she cried and prayed that her son would know Christ. As her hope that Augustine would one day convert dwindled, God blessed her with a vision in which she encountered God who said to her, “where you are, there he will be” (St. Augustine 90). God blessed her with this vision so that she would have the faith to know that because she believes, her son will also believe. God's granting of a vision to Monica led her to remain faithful in trying to save her son. Even when it seemed impossible for Augustine to convert, she remained faithful to him and to God by pursuing him. In a praise to God, Augustine himself describes this, saying: “Unwavering in her faithfulness, my mother had joined me at that time, f…… middle of paper…. .. was there with them. Even though he knew they would continue to experience difficulties, he promised that he would remain faithful to them and would always be with them. Jeremiah 29:11-13 says, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart” (English Standard Version). Even when the Judeans and Augustinians were facing their darkest times and had almost completely lost hope, God was still there pursuing them and waiting for them to seek Him. Works Cited ESV Study Bible: English Standard Version. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2008. Print.Saint Augustine and Maria Boulding. The Confessions. Ed. John E. Rotelle. 2nd ed. Hyde Park, New York: New City, 2012. Print.