Happy Easter weekend!!! This weekend I'm just trying to focus on God's faithfulness. He is the only truth. He is the only thing I can put my trust in. I really struggle in doubting His goodness and find myself constantly trying to "make things happen" for myself. It seems that most of my life I have been able to work hard and achieve what I want to achieve. Recently I have found that there are a lot of things in my life that I really have no control over and really don't have the answers to. I know God has me here to strip me of my self-reliance. I'm not in control and I don't know what's best. For example and to be completely honest, I have been like a ship tossing in the ocean over the fact that we are adopting from Ethiopia with all of the slowdowns and uncertainties in this program. When I hear of families switching programs because of the extreme slowdown in the Ethiopia program, my desire is to join them and switch countries to avoid the wait and uncertainty. Thankfully, my husband has continued to remind me of God's specific call to adopt from Ethiopia. I know he wants us there. I'm just scared to be honest. I'm scared that in 2 years we will still have no idea when our children will be home. While adoption is moving quickly in these new countries and orphans are joining their forever families, I can so easily talk myself out of the fact that God wants Paul and I to stay in the Ethiopia program. So here I am, praying for God to give me the grace to trust Him. I know He's good. Thank you Lord for a husband who is unwavering in you and reminds me of what you desire from me..trust in you.
On a different note, I never posted that the dollar offering ended up being around $950!! AND two of our best friends (Kelly and Andy Huddleston) have offered to support our adoption by donating 10% of sales from their "Kohlston Designs Home Show" to bringing our children home. To check out their awesome hand-made picture frames you can go here:
www.kohlstondesigns.com
The show is this Thurs. April 12 from 1-7 PM
at 7505 Lawford Road Knoville, TN 37919
Come by and check it out. We'd love to see ya!
Currently in the process, we are waiting to receive our approval from USCIS and our fingerprinting date. We have to get fingerprinted in Atlanta and then everything on this side of the adoption process is complete...which means we will just be waiting on Ethiopia to clear the paperwork and send us a referral for our children. We could use a lot of prayer during that time. =)
Happy Easter! Praise God for his faithfulness!
"We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." Romans 6:6
On a different note, I never posted that the dollar offering ended up being around $950!! AND two of our best friends (Kelly and Andy Huddleston) have offered to support our adoption by donating 10% of sales from their "Kohlston Designs Home Show" to bringing our children home. To check out their awesome hand-made picture frames you can go here:
www.kohlstondesigns.com
The show is this Thurs. April 12 from 1-7 PM
at 7505 Lawford Road Knoville, TN 37919
Come by and check it out. We'd love to see ya!
Currently in the process, we are waiting to receive our approval from USCIS and our fingerprinting date. We have to get fingerprinted in Atlanta and then everything on this side of the adoption process is complete...which means we will just be waiting on Ethiopia to clear the paperwork and send us a referral for our children. We could use a lot of prayer during that time. =)
Happy Easter! Praise God for his faithfulness!
"We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin." Romans 6:6
