A Big Day For Our Family!

Today, our oldest daughter is getting baptized. Abbigail is 8 years old and has been asking questions for at least 3 or 4 years about being born again and getting baptized. Finally she is ready. On Friday night of this week, she apparently was having a hard time getting to sleep so she started praying and spent much of the night in prayer. Saturday morning, with tears of excitement, she told me how she had told Jesus about the bad things she had been doing and asked Him to take away her sin and that she wanted to be with Him. When she told Kenny about it, he asked her if she ready to be baptized. She said yes. Later that day she told me "This is the happiest day of my whole life!" I am so excited to see Jesus' love and power at work in her life. I am grateful to all of our friends who have set a wonderful example for her to see Jesus at work in their lives. And to everyone who has had a part in teaching her of His love.

Thank you, Jesus, for hearing our prayers for our daughter. Make her strong in You. Grant her grace to become more and more like You. Deepen her love for those that are far away from You. Use her as an instrument of Your love in their lives. And just as her name means "My Father's Joy" let her feel and know Your delight in her.