Our little ones were baptized at our church this past Sunday. Tamlin was baptized back when he was little, but Jude still needed the blessing. When we decided to join our nearby Lutheran Church, we asked Pastor Rich to baptize Jude. We decided to do it on the Sunday before our trip to Great Wolf Lodge, since this will allow Mom and Dale to be here too. Shelly and Rick jumped on board and decided to have Ciearra and Elizabeth baptized too. It was a great ceremony within our usual contemporary Sunday service. I had a couple of favorite moments. One was watching our JuJu climb the little stairs and boldly hold his head over the bowl. He seemed to be concentrating really hard on doing it all correctly. The second moment was when Pastor was anointing each little head with the Holy oil. Tamlin peered very closely when Pastor made the sign of the cross on Jude's forehead. I think he was desperately trying to see the "invisible" mark of God on his brother. The third moment was hearing the story of the seashells they use to scoop the water up. There is a couple from the church that selects these shells from the beaches of Florida, then cleans them up and polishes them for the baptisms. Pastor even allowed Tamlin to have a shell too, which made his face light up.
Yeah God!
