Dedication

I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of Him. So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.
 1 Samuel 1: 27-28

Mary Grace had her dedication at church on Sunday, June 3rd. We are so thankful to the Lord for blessing us with this child. It is our most sincere prayer that the Lord with guide us to become the parents HE has intended for us to be. We want Mary Grace to see our love for Jesus and our sacrificial hearts for HIS ministry in the hopes that she, too, will become a lover of God and all things HE desires.

Brother Franklin did a wonderful job and we really enjoyed his message.

{Mary Grace wore her smocked dress I made and her special baby bonnet. Now they will be retired to a frame until her children arrive}

 

Excerpt from the book of 1 Samuel, chapter 1...

Hannah Dedicates Samuel

21When the man Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow, 22Hannah did not go. She said to her husband, “After the boy is weaned, I will take him and present him before the Lord, and he will live there always.”

23“Do what seems best to you,” Elkanah her husband told her. “Stay here until you have weaned him; only may the Lord make good his word.” So the woman stayed at home and nursed her son until she had weaned him.

24After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull,^e an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. 25When they had slaughtered the bull, they brought the boy to Eli, 26and she said to him, “As surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the Lord. 27I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. 28So now I give him to the Lord. For his whole life he will be given over to the Lord.” And she worshiped the Lord there.