Ethan's Dedication

This past Sunday was a very special day for our family as we dedicated our Ethan at church with prayers that he will one day entrust his life to the one true giver of life, our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ.

We were given this special prayer and will continue to pray this over his precious life.

Dear God,

You love Ethan George and want his best.

You entrust Ethan to his earthly parents.  We ask that Paul & Cara would parent well.  But we know that even when parents do things well, unless You work in his life, it is only human effort that is at work.

We ask that Ethan would come to know Jesus as his Savior early in life.  We ask that all of his life would be devoted to Your glory.  We ask that Your promises be trusted so fully that peace and joy and strength would fill his soul.

We ask that Ethan George would be a person of the Book, one who loves, studies and obeys Your Word in every area of its teaching.  We ask that he would be a person of prayer, so that the power of faith and holiness would be upon him and that his spiritual impact would be great.

We ask that Ethan George would give himself to Your service, and not fritter away his time on excessive recreation, unimportant hobbies, or aimless ambition.  We ask that you would remove the influences that would lead him away from You and from all that is good and right and true.

We ask that You would protect Ethan from damaging experiences and people.  We ask that You would grant him positive relationships with the significant people in his life.  We ask that he would live his life for Your approval alone.

Amen.

After the service we had family over for a celebratory brunch.  The morning flew past and unfortunately I did not get as many pictures as I would have liked! 

I ordered mini cakes instead of one big one and they turned out beautifully!

It was a wonderful morning.  We are so blessed by our family and church community.  We praise God for our Ethan and the abundance of blessings he has poured over our lives.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Chris our Savior, that having been justified by his grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

~Titus 3:5-7