Colton's second game: Day 22

After seeing Colton strike out his first batter last Saturday, go 1-2-3 in the first inning and make some great defensive plays as well, I didn't think it could get much better. Well, it did. He walked a few and hit a batter, but he only pitched two innings and all 6 of the outs were strikeouts. I couldn't have imagined that. Defensively, he played his position well and caught a wicked line drive he had to jump to catch. He's better than expected and takes it all in stride.

Colton asked if the fast I did a few weeks ago stood for something, as in was it a "F.A.S.T." and did it actually mean something else. I told him no, and tried to explain suffering to him as best I could, how Jesus suffered on the cross to die for our sins, and what the fast meant to me. He asked me if now that we prayed before we went to bed, would we go to heaven now. Great question, but I told him no. I told him it's very important as Pastor Bob said last week, but we need to believe He is our Lord and Savior and He is in our hearts and we try to live according to what He has layed out in the Bible for us. He said he would do anything to get into Heaven. Later on that night, when we prayed, he mentioned how he hoped that Jesus was in the hearts of "everyone in the house" and He would touch the hearts of everyone that needed Him. I can tend to ramble on when answering the kids' questions once in a while, and I think they may occasionally tune me out, so it was very heartening to see that he was listening, seemed to understand, and was praying for it to be true. Gabrielle does the same thing. If mom or I mention something in our prayers, many times she will remember it and pray about it the next night. She seems to be trying so hard to pray with the second smallest vocabulary in the house, but she always eventually gets out what she's trying to say. They are two very sweet children.

It is impossible to write about Kim and the kids and not realize how very blessed I am. Thank you again, Lord, for allowing me to walk down this blessed road. There will be bumps, but there will be wonderful things I still have yet to experience. I'm not sure how high I'm setting the bar for myself and Dennis and Jennifer, and I don't want to put them on the spot, but the feeling I've had for the past two months has not gone away. I still feel they either have something very important to tell me or talking with them will open up my eyes to a revelation I have not yet realized. No pressure :)

Thank you, Jesus and please bless us all.