The tiniest stream can become a powerful current. The ocean can become a raging beast in the midst of a storm. At any time they can threaten to engulf us. We seek the water for its promise of peace and life. We fear the water because it threatens.
Baptism is water.
It is water that we seek. We desire to have our children baptized. Even the agnostic desires baptism. I read that even during the peak of the cold war, soviet communists had their children and grandchildren baptized. Parents, grandparents will go to great lengths and make all types of promises to have their children baptized.