This past week

This past week has been good and bad. The good is that we enjoyed a great time with Papa Linde, Jayson had a great birthday party at our house last Saturday and the youth ministry is doing well at the Church (I just baptized 4 teens on Sunday, and helped another on the same day pray to turn their life over to Christ!).

The not so good is that all of us have gone through some sickness, well, other than Benjamin. The scary part came this past weekend where I (Wes) had to rush Emily to the hospital because she had trouble breathing. It was very scary, and immediately we thought it was H1N1. Thankfully she was checked out and didn't have swine flu, but rather had a very bad case of Croop (Sp?) She's doing better now, and all she has left is a runny nose. All of us have had a sore throat, which is still bothering Christy.

But things are otherwise doing fine for us. The heavy frost we have woken up to the past couple mornings has given us reason to believe that the cold is coming soon. Which makes us want to be closer to the ocean, where it is mild and warm.

On a very exciting note (yes, more good!), the night before Jayson's birthday he asked me "Daddy, I want to be a Christian". Now, that night we had just finished his last story and we were about to pray. I was very surprised by his request, so I helped him understand that to be a Christian or follow Jesus means you need to acknowledge that you can't live your life without Him. I told him he also needs to believe in Him... that he's real, which prior to that night he always had a tough time with understanding this because God was 'invisible' to him. He already knows that there are things that are naughty that he does that God doesn't want him to do. But his genuine heart was to follow Jesus... or as he put it "I want to be a Christian". The funny thing is, the first thing I said when I prayed to give my life over to Christ, was "I'm a Christian!".

We prayed. He knew what he did. He ran to tell Christy in the other room. I cried. It was one of the most incredible feelings I have ever felt. It was genuine. On his own. I loved it!

As for a change in his life? He's still Jay, who torments his sister. But I see in his eyes a desire to be good. He's now accountable to Jesus and I need to teach him.

Thanks for listening to me share.

Wes