Dedicated

Well, this was such a wonderful weekend to celebrate family. Eli went through "baby dedication" on Saturday (finally..ha!). He did really well, but it was such a sweet time for us to share with our family and to pray over him. I was blessed to have all those that love him most surrounding him and to watch how happy he was to have everyone together! It was wonderful. We want Jesus to use Eli in whatever ways He sees fit, and we have total faith that He will teach us about Himself through this wonderful little guy we have the honor of calling our son. We pray that the Lord would continue to guide us and give us wisdom for the days/years ahead.
We were able to have some girl time that night and Chris was able to hang out with the guys from our community group....both were very good times to connect and relax. My mom enjoyed every minute with Eli (as did my dad...but he went to an Eagles concert and heard a "wonderful" concert).....so, all the way around it was a wonderful day.
Today has been a good day to relax.....hooray!! We haven't had the chance to do this in awhile, and it has been a wonderful wonderful Sunday! I can't say this enough.
I was challenged by the message at church in thinking that the choices we make really determine the path of our lives, whether we realize it or not....it's not the intentions we have that determine the "destination" but rather the choices we make along the way. We could have great intentions or dreams, but that doesn't determine where we end up....it's really the choices and in that is the choice to follow the ways of Jesus or follow the ways of the world....we've all been down roads where we had good intentions, but somewhere we made wrong choices and ended up somewhere totally different from where we would have ever thought. It was a good message.
(Reference Story found in Proverbs 7:6-27)

I also have some good music to share that my sister passed along to us today. Hope you enjoy the song as much as we did. Looks like they might have a new CD coming soon.