Celebration

Well the weekend was full of celebrations! We celebrated Addison's b-day and it was a nice afternoon with family. All my cousins (except Watchy-which we missed!)was there and Aunts. Payton was cheering in the district champion playoffs, which the boys lost by 2 points at the buzzer. So, we all got to catch up and visit with one another and listen to the kids and the 100 million toys that talk, sing, play music and in general make way tooooo much noise. Course having a miagrane headache wasn't a good mix with this. But, after 2 kinds of sinus meds and tylenol-I felt better.

Then MY CELEBRATION on sunday with being baptized was awesome too! We had a wonderful and emotional sermon afterwards. People were walking out-including me and mom-with tears in our eyes. It was just a touching time. The title of the sermon was "The ulitmate love story" with God. Richard really touched a lot of people and as my Mentor Kathy put it - it was deep! We have all been guilty of just going through the motions of being christians. Getting up and going to church every sunday does not make you a christian. Living with the Lord "IN" you everyday in everything you do, from working, to reading the bible should be done with your best efforts.
This ties in to the lessons I've been going to about Worshipping. You can go to church, sing, and hear the message, But if you aren't feeling every moment, listening to every word of the sermon or song If you aren't feeling the word of God your not really there.
Reminds me of the stroy where there were hundreds of people in this church one day singing and praising God and jumping up and down dancing around the ilse. And God was listening and he could only hear one voice. A little boy that was singing his own song about Jesus and meaning every word of it.
I've heard the story told with more detail and a lot better-but you get the point.

C E L E B R A T E E V E R Y D A Y W I T H J E S U S!