This is the year of our White Spring.\u00a0 All three of our daughters are receiving sacraments.\u00a0 All three will be wearing white gowns.\u00a0 All three.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still a little strange to me that we have three daughters.\u00a0 Even with the youngest one always in my arms, I still catch myself suddenly realizing the happiness of having our three and the smile is uncontainable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Our Sweet #7 will be Baptized next month.\u00a0 We waited longer than usual so that we could take her back to Oklahoma for her first Sacrament.\u00a0 We wanted her to be surrounded by people who love her, and to introduce her to her earthly family at the same time she joins God\u2019s family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lovely #4 has her First Confession next weekend and her First Communion in May.\u00a0 She has spent hours looking for the \u201cjust perfect\u201d dress and the veil to go with it.\u00a0 There were a few tears last month when the dream dress was discontinued and she had to begin looking all over again.\u00a0 I explained that the focus of this day was not the dress, but her love for and relationship with God.\u00a0 It is about the first time she receives Jesus Christ, body, blood, soul, and divinity.\u00a0 It is the first time she will be asked publicly if she accepts Him and the first time she gets to answer \u2018Yes.\u2019 She solemnly nodded.\u00a0 I know she gets it.\u00a0 I also know it\u2019s still a little bit about the dress.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
#1 is getting Confirmed on Cinco de Mayo.\u00a0 She proved that she is a natural blond when she asked what date that was exactly.\u00a0 Her lapse of Spanish aside, this is the Sacrament I\u2019m most anxious to see.\u00a0 This is the one which she makes wholly on her own.\u00a0 This one is her decision alone.\u00a0 She publicly declares her dedication to Christ and His Church, not because we say so but because she does.\u00a0 She has been ready for this for at least a year now, but God has prepared her heart even more.\u00a0 It has been a rough season on loneliness in her life.\u00a0 She went from a tight group of friends to not even one nearby.\u00a0 For a long time it was the pain in her life, but it was in that pain that she found strengths she didn\u2019t know existed.\u00a0 It was in her loneliness that she turned ever more to God.<\/p>\n
This has been a year which brought #7 life, #4 confidence and brought #1 a calm maturity.\u00a0 It is with these gifts that they will go before their Heavenly Father this Spring arrayed all in white and clothed in Grace.\u00a0 What a season this will be in our household as our girls enter into new ever deeper relationships with Our Lord.\u00a0\u00a0 The past year has been a hard one, but at last we are here.\u00a0 We\u2019ve arrived at our Season of Grace.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is the year of our White Spring.\u00a0 All three of our daughters are receiving sacraments.\u00a0 All three will be wearing white gowns.\u00a0 All three. It\u2019s still a little strange to me that we have three daughters.\u00a0 Even with the youngest one always in my arms, I still catch myself suddenly realizing the happiness of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n