Good Morning everyone,
Last
night Jason and I were blessed with
tickets to the Steven Curtis Chapman, Laura Story, and Jason Gray
concert here in Eau Claire. I sobbed the whole way through. Jason Gray
reminded me that our time waiting for our children to come home was not
wasted time. I so often think of all the time that we have missed with
them has been wasted. It is impossible for my brain to wrap my mind
around the 3 and a half years that we have been matched with our kids.
Time we have missed. Yes folks we received their referral three and a
half years ago! In the spring of 2011 during a garage sale fundraiser
we received their paperwork. I never thought at that point that we
would still be waiting for them to come home. I wept
thru this entire song. God just totally opened the flood gates of my
heart to stop focusing on all that we have missed and thanking him for
the time we have had with them and WILL have with them in the future!
So please watch this video because I am sure I am not the only one that
this music will speak too.
Then Laura Story started singing and two sentences into this song I lost
it again. I have been trying to do this all on my own. I have been
angry at God for not working on my time table. Again this will speak so
many of you.
I have a renewed hope and strength to get thru these last few steps before my kids come home.
Then
during Steven Curtis Chapman's video on adoption he shared the story of
a little girl with twisted legs like little Lili from our children's
orphanage. Some of you know
her story. Some of you know that I desperately want to bring her home
to our family. I think about the idea that if she is not brought to the
United States she will spend her nights in the infirmary with the sick
children and spend her days in wheelchair stuck in the main building
with children 3 and under since she won't be able to get her wheelchair
outdoors. If she does go out of the main building she will have to drag
her body across the hard dirt, rocks, or concrete. Please pray that
God will either move our family to bring her into to our family or to
another family so that she can thrive and walk! It is NOT God's plan
for her to grow up in an orphanage!
Then
to finish me off last night they ended the night with worship music.
The song that God has used in my heart so many times in regards to our
adoption is the one that says...Savior he can move mountains....I never
remember the rest of the song but God moved MOUNTAINS of paperwork to
bring Tessa home quickly. Why God hasn't moved mountains to bring home
Yoldine and Vlad I don't know and won't until we get to heaven. However
GOD WILL MOVE MOUNTAINS! Our time waiting isn't wasted! Mostly my
family and I will NOT have to do this alone! Our God is with us and HE
IS REAL and HE IS MOVING MOUNTAINS!
I
am so thankful for God using these musicians to speak into my heart to
encourage me thru these last steps. Please be praying with us as we
wait for these final steps to bring home our children.
Love,
Heather
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