Baptism

Here are a few pics from the big event thanks to Missy Vandenberg (sp?), her son Jack was baptized as well on sunday and her brother in law captured a few pics.
Tyler reading the blessing.
Jack and Maggie awaiting the much anticipated sprinkling.
The big moment!
I believe I am looking at our covenant family standing in the pews (either that or someone farted in the balcony...sorry I couldn't resist...don't worry I am working on behaving like an adult).
Maggie fell asleep the moment I opened the car door to put her in her car seat, she was exhausted from her long morning.

Here is the blessing Tyler read to Maggie:

Margaret Grace

I remember the day I first found out about you. To be honest, my first reaction was not joy, but fear. I felt inadequate and unprepared - and I failed to put my trust in the Lord. However, from that moment, up to the present, I can genuinely say that God has ministered to your mother and I in incredible ways through you. He has certainly stretched us, and taught that we are not in control – and that it is absolutely essential that we put our confidence in Him. But what is most significant - is that He has taught us something about love. God has used your presence in our life to illuminate His amazing love for us. That love which is most explicitly revealed in His Son Jesus Christ - whom He sent to live and die on our behalf.

You are without a doubt, an exceedingly precious gift from the Lord - and your mother and I are so grateful that God has given you to us. You are such a joy to your mother and I, and our love for you is beyond what I am able to put into words.

You have many family members here today, both biological and spiritual, who are absolutely thrilled about you, and they love you dearly.

However, despite how much we love you - your mother and I, and everyone else (-) we will fail you (-) and we will sin against you. And though you truly are an amazing gift from the Lord - you are born in sin - and there is nothing in you, or in us, that can commend you to God.

Therefore our prayer for you is very basic - it is simply that you would embrace what is being signified and sealed here today; that you would truly know the deep deep love of Jesus, and that you would desperately cling to Him. We pray that you would become a woman who is characterized by her love for God – with all her heart, soul, mind and strength, and that Jesus Christ would be your only hope in life and in death.