Last Sunday was the first Sunday in Emily's life that she did not have Youth Worship, Kids 2 Praise or Praise camp to go to. As she is now a first grader and the church we are attending cuts them off at the end of kindergarten. So she is sitting there behaving as good, if not better than one can expect from a first grader listening to her first sermon that she could ever remember, and it is time for communion. She has sat through communion before but we usually have two kids rolling all over us and this week they did communion after the sermon. She usually asks for crackers and I always have just told her no without any explanation. This week I figured if she is old enough to sit so nicely during the sermon and she has shown signs of actual intelligence lately so I lean over and whisper in her ear, "Only those people who have been baptized can have the crackers." She sits back and thinks for a minute. After the "wine" has passed she looks up at me and says, "Mom, I want to be baptized." As I know deep down where this is going, I lean down and ask her "Emily, why do you want to be baptized?" She looks up at me with all the innocence of a child and says, "So that I can have the crackers." I hold back the urge to giggle and tell her that is not the reason that one decides to get baptized, but that we could talk more about it after church if she liked. Of course, after church all she was concerned about was if we could go to the local pizza place The Rockin Tomato for lunch.
Wow, out of the mouths of my children.
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Oh Emily. At least she is honest about it.
A small piece of cracker crumb once fell on my lap as the tray was passed and I ate it. I spent the next few weeks wondering if I was going to be in trouble with God for eating it even though I wasn't baptized.
I find it hard to explain as well, but I think you did a great job.
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