My son woke up from his nap right before we left for Celebration on the 10th of July and told me his dream in the car on our way to church: "I dreamed I got baptized," he told me, "and you were the one who did it mommy. You were so proud of me and when I came out of the water I didn't cry at all."

We've talked about baptism a couple of times but he's always said he didn't want to and wasn't ready and has always had trouble getting water in his face. How sweet that God would give him a dream that instilled a new confidence!

THEN, on the way to Celebration I was telling him how people were going to get baptized and we were going to watch and praise God. Then he said, "Well when I get baptized tonight, I won't cry at all." He took his dream and declared its reality. I told him that he wasn't one of the ones being baptized tonight but maybe another time he could do it. He said, "The next time we baptize people I will get baptized." What a fun declaration!