Our baptism is an integral part of our identity as believers. The baptism of the Lord, is the inaugural event of Jesus' public ministry and an initiation of the life in the church. We may say that the church began at the Jordan, so that when we feel that the church is moving away from its origins, let us not get lost in multiplying rituals, rules, and regulations, but simply let us go back to the Jordan River where we all began. When our lives do not make sense any longer, let us go back to the river, to our baptismal promises. Our baptism is an unfinished story, we are always in it.