This past Sunday in a community of friends, we dedicated Zoe to the Lord. Essentially we said to God "We know you made this special girl. We consider Your will for her better than our own, so we'll follow You first in raising her." We committed to raising her in accordance with God's Word, to keeping the Lord in our home and family and to seek wisdom within our community to parent her. We realize that we cannot control Zoe's relationship with God, but we believe God will reveal His instructions and a lot of grace along the way for her to come to know Him.
There were 12 kids dedicated together - some were children of good friends of mine such as Chaney Russell (Kelly) Isaac Paul (Erin), Ben Ranson (Sara) and Joy Manuel (Dora). We were happy to do this in a community of friends. Here are a couple photos we took. While our intentions are pure and good, we realize too that we are flawed parents, so we put all our hope in Jesus to help us follow through with these commitments. Our best hope for our daugher is to come to know Him and live within a community of people (like this amazing one!) who do too.
2 comments:
such a special day... loved seeing the photos!!
Ow!
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