I’ve been meaning to write about this, since the 4th June. It was a special day for our family… Saturday evening, our Emily was Baptised by Paul. I'm crying while writing this, just thinking about how time flys by. It just doesn't feel like eight years ago, that our first child was given to us by my Heavenly Father. She is a precious gift and I'm so grateful for her. I'm grateful that she decided to get get baptised, it was a very special day for Emily, she was so excited. I am also grateful that Paul was able to baptise her.
Here they are both dressed in white
Mummy and Emily
Our family
Emily with Megan
Paul and Emily with both sets of Grandparents
Emily with Megan and so friends she invited
Here is a poem I like.
Washed Clean - Boyd K. Packer
In ancient times the cry "Unclean!"
Would warn of lepers near.
"Unclean! Unclean!" the words rang out;
Then all drew back in fear,
Lest by the touch of lepers' hands
They, too, would lepers be.
There was no cure in ancient times,
Just hopeless agony.
No soap, no balm, no medicine
Could stay disease or pain.
There was no salve, no cleansing bath,
To make them well again.
But there was One, the record shows,
Whose touch could make them pure;
Could ease their awful suffering,
Their rotting flesh restore.
His coming long had been foretold.
Signs would precede His birth.
A Son of God to woman born,
With power to cleanse the earth.
The day He made ten lepers whole,
The day He made them clean,
Well symbolized His ministry
And what His life would mean.
However great that miracle,
This was not why He came.
He came to rescue every soul
From death, from sin, from shame.
For greater miracles,
He said, His servants yet would do,
To rescue every living soul,
Not just heal up the few.
Though we're redeemed from mortal death,
We still can't enter in
Unless we're clean, cleansed every whit,
From every mortal sin.
What must be done to make us clean
We cannot do alone.
The law, to be a law, requires
A pure one must atone.
He taught that justice will be stayed
Till mercy's claim be heard
If we repent and are baptized
And live by every word. . . .
If we could only understand
All we have heard and seen,
We'd know there is no greater gift
Than those two words--"Washed clean!"
