Okay, I think we (mostly Julie) have teased you long enough about the extra special announcement…… Our agency requested the Consulate Appointment confirmation yesterday afternoon for 11/1 or 11/2 and said it normally took 2 to 5 business days to get a confirmation, so we were resisting the urge to hope for it on Monday… Read More
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it’s going to be a lot better and a lot bigger. ~Elisabeth Elliot I’m not sure exactly what God has going on behind the scenes–but I am thankful that God… Read More
“Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.” –George Mueller I told you God has a sense of HUMOR!!! Guess what we got today??? T.A.!!!!!! So what does that mean? Well it means that we will travel sometime in October. We will… Read More
I guess I set myself up for failure yesterday. (My peace about TA went out the window–for a little while.) I had this idea in my head that we were supposed to travel in September to go get our girls. I guess somewhere in all of this raw emotion floating around I thought that God would… Read More
All I can say is that God is moving the mountain–slowly–but hey–Gods ways are not my ways! (You can be thankful for that!) No–We do not have TA yet. And Really–We have given that over to God. It will get here in His timing. I’d like to say that I have been extremely patient, but that would… Read More
God may have started moving our biggest mountain yesterday morning. A dear friend of mine, Dan Dubell, President of International Care, Inc. (I CARE) called me yesterday morning and offered to set up an adoption fund at I CARE where people can make tax-deductable donations to assist with Hannah and Sara’s adoptions. Dan specifically asked… Read More
I know. I Know. Another Mother of the Year Trophy for my mantle. I failed to capture our first day of school for Zach and Leighanne in pictures. I could make all kinds of excuses . . . The dog ate the camera! We were so busy being perfect that–nope–no one would even believe that!… Read More
Here is the song that was playing as I was on the way to work this morning… Ben
Through this journey one of the things that I have learned is that we can convince ourselves that we hear what we want God to tell us – and it is really easy to do. We are expecting our TA (Travel Authorization) literally any day now and once we get TA things have to happen… Read More
“Don’t give up hope. Whatever it is your praying about…whoever it is that your praying for…don’t give up hope. Don’t think your prayers aren’t going to be answered. Your prayers can be answered. Your God hears your prayers and He can perform miracles and He still does today! I beg you, don’t give up.” -Beth… Read More
