Tomorrow is the day!

i cannot believe that i haven't blogged anymore this month! here it is - the last day of october - and this is my 2nd blog post. go figure. busy? yep.

tommorow is the big day. mary peyton will be baptised in the morning. such a big day for such a little girl.

since i never went back and did a post like i said i would about what led up to her asking Jesus into her heart on october 4th, i'll do it now.

on september 22, we were curled up in the bed watching t.v. and playing with our 20+ lb cat, tiger. mary peyton looks up at me and said, "mommy, i want to ask Jesus into my heart." just very matter of fact.

we thought something may be coming soon. she had been asking questions, etc., but i didn't expect it to just come out of the blue. i told her that we could talk to mrs dianne about it. and then i sent dianne a text asking what i should ask next. she has always told us to answer questions with simple answers and not to elaborate on anything.

so she told me to ask mary peyton "why do you want to do that?". so i did. her response - "because i want to go to Heaven when i die and if you don't have Jesus in your heart, you can't go to Heaven."

i called dianne and we talked. and set up a time for us to sit down with her and see if mary peyton was ready to take that step - if she understood everything she needed to.

that wednesday after dinner at church, we met with dianne. mary peyton understood everything except sin. she didn't think that she had sinned, much less dianne, tommy, or me! so we got a workbook and started working on it.

the very next day, mary peyton bit a little girl at school. now let me tell you - she never bit even in daycare when she was teething, etc. so i don't know if the child and a few others that were there provoked mp and that was her only response or what. but she did it and it was wrong. she was punished at school (had to miss recess, etc.) and then was punished at home. plus, i made her get up at 6 a.m. that friday to write notes to both of her teachers and the little girl she bit.

and she told me that she had sinned. aaahhh - maybe she was starting to grasp it!

we continued to work through our book, but the next sunday (october 4th) during the night service, she told roseann that she asked Jesus in her heart. um.......when? so after church, she told me that she wanted to go talk to mrs dianne.

we got down to dianne and mary peyton said, "i want to go up to your office to talk about Jesus." dianne asked, "do you want to do it now or go up on wednesday like we did last time?" mp replied, "i want to go NOW." dianne looked at me and said, "we're going up to my office!"

we went upstairs and dianne asked her everything again and again. mary peyton answered everything clearly and said that she wanted to ask Jesus into her heart that night. i'm so thankful that i had my iphone with me (i carry it on sunday nights because i have a Bible app that has a note-taking feature on it) so that i could capture that time!

so now here we are. baptism tomorrow!

if you want to watch it, you can! our church shows services in live time on the internet. go to
www.colonialheights.org when you go here, you will see in the top right a tab that says ".TVwatch". click on this and you will be able to see the service live.

the baptism is the first thing that happens in our service, so if you do go here and are going to watch it, i would start watching at 9:25 a.m. it usually isn't until 9:30, but i would hate for it be over if you are wanting to watch it!

be watching for pictures - i WILL get them done!!!!!!!