Happy Easter from Maddie!

Happy Easter from my precious little Easter bunny! (picture taken yesterday at an easter egg hunt at church!)

I am so excited for MK's first easter! We have a precious easter dress thanks to Gigi and her easter basket (that I made her!) is filled... we're giving her a stuffed animal lamb and a "Gigi God's Little Princess" book and DVD, I also have plastic easter eggs that I'm going to fill with her favorite Happy Baby puffs. Mom and Dad got her the sweetest little angel doll and stuffed bunny...this girl is officially spoiled!

Good Friday and Easter always makes me think more deeply about my savior… and this year I find myself praying this prayer over and over again:

“God, please bring my precious baby Maddison to know you, capture her heart so that she grows more in love with you everyday. Help her to see that she needs a savior and that you are the only one. Help her to serve you all of her days.”

There is nothing that would bring me greater joy in this life than for Maddie Kate to accept Christ as her Lord and Savior. I know that all I can do is pray for her, teach her, and be an example for her… God’s got to do the rest! I am so thankful that I came to know the Lord at a young age, thanks to my wonderful Dad. I can vividly remember him sitting down with my twin sister and me when we were 7 and sharing the gospel with us…and in our child-like faith we prayed a prayer very similar to this: “Dear Lord, I am sorry for all of the wrong things I have done, thank you for dying on the cross for me and washing my sins away. I ask you to come live in my heart, to be my Lord and my Savior. I love you, Amen.” Now, it took a lot longer for me to figure out what this faith meant personally to me… I didn’t know the true joy of being in Christ until I was a teenager.

I hope that you know Him today…I hope that you experience the peace and joy of being in Christ.

Happy Easter! He is Risen!