Updates...

We went to Birmingham today to do fingerprints for our i800a (it allows us to bring an orphan into the United States).

We went to the McWane Center after...

 

Then we met some sweet, sweet friends for lunch (so sorry y'all had to listen to an extremely ill, mad 2 year old through lunch! I'm sure the rest of the customers in the restaurant were sorry they had to listen to him too!)

 

Since my last blog we have celebrated our oldest son's 13th birthday...

I can't believe we have a teenager now!!

I also started homeschool this week! Pray for us!!

 

 

We still have not heard from the orphanage with updated medical information or pictures/video (that's what I'm really wanting!). They are suppose to get us information within a 30 day time period. It's been 3 1/2 weeks since we were matched. We have had some discouraging times, some anxious times. But God is still showing us things daily...

• Isaiah 60:22 "I am Yahweh; I will accomplish it quickly in its time."
• El Roi, the God who sees...He sees the whole picture, even the parts hidden from us. Our job is to trust Him!
• God is FULLY in control.
• From the song Ever Be...You Father the orphan, Your kindness makes us whole, and You shoulder our weakness, and Your strength becomes our own...
• He wants us to trade our weakness for His strength.
• From the song It Is Well...And this mountain that's in front of me will be thrown into the midst of the sea...so let go my soul and trust in Him, the waves and wind still know His name...
• Hebrews 4:15-16 "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but One who has been tested in every way as we are, yet is without sin. Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time."
• And my favorite...God has put THREE rainbows in our path in three different places. Genesis 9:9-17 tells us that a rainbow is God's covenant/promise to us and Ezekiel 1:26-28 tells us that a rainbow is what the glory of God looks like!

 

Please continue to pray that we can get our baby girl home before her birthday in April!