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Cupcakes and Salvation, Part 2

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While Travis and Chloe were on their way home, Halle and I were on our way to buy cupcakes and ice cream. I figured that if the angels in heaven can rejoice over one that comes to salvation (Luke 15:10), the Button family could certainly celebrate with cupcakes. So Halle and I went to the bakery at Publix and I looked over their cupcake selection. I saw some cute ones with butterflies and some that said, “Happy Birthday!”. I really wanted to buy the butterfly cupcakes because I knew that Chloe would love them. But I felt that the Holy Spirit was prompting me to buy the happy birthday cupcakes. It seemed silly. I wondered why in the world it would matter which cupcakes I bought? I told myself that I was being ridiculous. I reasoned that butterflies could signify rebirth and we could talk about it at dinner. So I put the butterfly cupcakes into my shopping cart and walked away but as I did it nagged at me that I should buy the birthday cupcakes. So I turned around, put the butterfly cupcakes back and put the birthday cupcakes into my cart. Immediately Halle asked, “Birthday cupcakes? It’s not Chloe’s birthday.”

Then I was able to share salvation and being born again with Halle. By the time we’d gotten to the ice cream section she asked me, “Mommy, am I a Christian?” And I asked her, “Have you ever confessed Jesus as your Savior?” She said, “You mean the whole family is a Christian and I’m not?!? I wanna be a Christian!” So I asked her if she’d like to pray with Daddy when we got home and she said, “Nah.” I was dealing with a 7 year old after all. I didn’t push it but I sensed that the Holy Spirit was working. So we bought our ice cream and cupcakes and headed home.

That night we celebrated…all of us including, Amanda plus my friend, Amanda and her daughter, Jessica. We thanked God for His goodness and talked and laughed. Then it came time for bed. I was brushing my teeth when Travis knocked on the bathroom door and said, “Can you come out here?” I asked what was going on and he’d been saying bedtime prayers with the girls and Halle again said, “I wanna be a Christian!” So we sat on the couch and talked to her for a few minutes trying to determine what she understood. Then we prayed with Halle to receive Christ. Afterwards I told her we’d buy cupcakes and celebrate her rebirth-day.

The next day we stopped by Publix again and this time we bought butterfly cupcakes….and I ate one too.

Tomorrow? Cupcakes, Salvation, and Healing.

Blessings,

Amy

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Cupcakes and Salvation, Part 1

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Chloe turned 11 a little over a month ago and nothing in her previous 10 birthdays prepared me for the overnight change in my daughter. My sweet, Shirley Temple curled, bouncy, bright, sweetheart. The little girl that named everything. The Redbud tree in the front yard? Her name is Sally. The rosebush in the backyard? Her name is Tracy. Granted, Chloe was 5 when we moved into this house and she should change and grow- and stop naming things. There were changes though that I saw that I didn’t like…rolling eyes…adolescent attitude. I thought, “Oh, no, not again.” I had already raised Amanda and had accepted that during middle school she lost her mind and I went to battle for her over and over and over so that the right choices were made. It was tiring and heartbreaking at times and I just wasn’t ready to do that again.

Then something rose up within me that said, “No!”

I realized that there was something I could do now to stem the tide of adolescent rebellion. So I prayed for wisdom and the answer was simple- if I wanted Chloe to be different then I had to use the tools that God was making available. Base 5/6 camp (for 5th and 6th graders) was coming up in a couple of weeks and Travis and I both knew that she should go. Base Camp is held in Nashville  on Nolensville Road every year- it’s not the best part of town. I live in Franklin and Nashville during rush hour is not the easiest place to get to. But I had to lay aside my fears (what if a crazy person breaks in!) and my selfishness (but Nashville is *sooo far* and it’s *sooo early*) and take my kid to camp.

The first day she came home jabbering away about doing face painting and making balloon animals and how much fun she had. The next day my friend, Amanda, took Chloe with her and her daughter to camp. Around 10 I got a text message from her saying that there was an altar call for salvation and Chloe was the first one to the front of the church to pray.

That day Travis picked her up and on the way home Chloe was quiet then she said, “Dad…I got saved today.” And she broke down into sobs. Our beautiful little Chloe had been drawn by the Holy Spirit to repentance and salvation.

The answer for everything we needed for Chloe was given to us. We didn’t need to fret or fear we just had to ask and obey.

“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God,who gives generously to all

without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” James 1:5

That’s part one of the story, tomorrow I’ll share part two.

Blessings,

Amy