Did you hide the eggs?

We had a comical thing happen after church on Easter Sunday. Let me begin by telling you how tired Billy and I both were. We have a sunrise service at our church at 7:00am, so it's an earlier morning than usual for all of us.

After lunch Billy told the boys they could search for their Easter eggs. They began to search all over the house. After quite some time, we both wondered why they had not discovered any yet and the boys began commenting on how well the bunny had hidden their eggs. I finally asked Billy, "Did you hide the eggs?" thinking he had hid them while the boys had been up in their room earlier. He replied with a "No, didn't you hide them last night?" No eggs had even been hidden yet! We discretely and casually hid some around the house as the boys continued to look and suddenly they began to find them, much to their relief.

As parents, we love our children and want them to be able to find their treasures. It was our responsibility to make sure the treasure was there to find and it was their job to keep on searching until they found it, not losing heart or giving up. They trust that the treasure is truly there for them to find. How much God is the same way with His children. "If you seek Him, He will be found." "Seek first His kingdom..."

We need to be seeking Him and all He has for us and be confident that we'll find Him and all the great treasure of His kingdom He has for us. I can just see God up there cheering us on to keep looking. He's hidden all the eggs and the next one could be right where we're about to look! He's excited for what we're about to discover and experience! I pray you find an egg today!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Irish in our home! Will has a dark green sweatshirt that he got from his Aunt Cathy when he was a baby that says "I'm so cute, I must be Irish". It fits him now and he's wearing it today, of course. I looked at it and thought, "Oh, with the little clover and calligraphy writing it almost looks girlish", but he wanted to wear it anyway. Maybe someday our little Indian daughter can wear it and won't that be funny! How Irish, she won't look!

And our Will is growing up. He went to a waterpark hotel in Indy with a friend from school for the night. I'm confident he'll do great, have fun and will behave himself, but a mom can't help getting butterflies over it. I kept thinking of more things to tell him or remind him to do or not to do, but didn't tell him most of them or I would simply overwhelm him. He knows all that stuff anyway - that's what we've taught him the past 6 years. I see now that you just do your best in raising them and they'll be fine and ready for the next step in life. I'm just thankful he is able to go and that he got invited. What fun he will have!

And when I asked Logan what he wanted to do tonight, he picked......drum roll........McDonalds and rent another Star Wars movie. How unoriginal, but hey, it's his pick tonight. :)

The Best Birthday Gift

I had the best birthday ever this year! Why? My sweet little 4 year-old asked Jesus into his heart!!! Logan has been wanting to take Communion at church. I think he truly just wants a snack after all that praise and worship, but why deny the child the opportunity to remember what Christ has done for him? The Gospel is so simple that even a little Logan can understand.

Before bed, we gave him a re-teaching of the death and resurrection of Jesus and talked about going to Heaven when one dies if they have Jesus in their heart. This opened the floodgates of tears and cries of "I don't want to die." After some more chatting about how Logan is not going to die until He is ready to, we all bowed (Will too) and said the "Sinner's Prayer" together. It was so special. There is still so much Logan doesn't understand (like all of us), but He knows that "Jesus is bigger than the whole world" and that "God can do anything" and that "We should love and not hate" and many other great concepts. Logan loves to worship the Lord - not always in church as he is quite shy - but at home He'll grab a guitar and worship God without holding anything back. Sometimes it cracks us up, but we know God is instilling in His little heart a love of worship.

What more could I ask for on my birthday than for my child to profess his love for Jesus! Now Logan can have his "snack" of Communion instead of the stick of gum I always hand him before Will and I go partake. We better have a re-teaching of Communion, too, don't you think?