Summer Tid-Bits #5

This past week has been filled with lots of emails, phone calls and praying about this new adoption. I can't even start to tell you how many things have pointed to our new country of adoption!! The Lord is pretty funny in how He is revealing His plan to us. Since none of the plans we hoped would work out over the course of the last 4 1/2 years through adoption we are a bit cautious of going head-over-heels giddy about all of it this time. However....we have gone head-over-heels giddy. ; )

Total faith in God's plan. Patience. Holding on to the hope that He wants His BEST for us---not just something good.

Not much else going on. Wait---God blessed us with someone who helped out a bit with the adoption expense. Praise the Lord!

I did go to a two day conference for my preschool teaching job. Had fun with coworkers (for those of you who have been reading me for awhile know that the word "coworkers" always makes me giggle because it looks like "cow workers"!) and learning some new tips to do in the classroom. Bought a darling blingy-blue flower ring while there in honor of our son that we will be adopting. It is quite large and gaudy, but I LOVE IT! LOL!

I put the question mark because we are in the hurry-up and wait pattern. We have to get L-O-T-S of paperwork done for the adoption home study and for our new agency. Wait on this person, wait on that person, wait on the government, wait on money to come flowing down like manna, wait on knowing if we are getting the child we want or another one, wait on.....the list just goes on. Therein lies the place I don't want to bog myself down with the burden of this adoption. I have to remind myself MANY times throughout the day that the Lord is in control. When I try to take control I get all wierd, whiney, tight-chested, constricted and bound. As I recall, John 10 tells me that I am to live in the abundant life that Jesus Christ gave his life for. If I choose to be tied up in stress.....it's my own fault.

I want to choose to live freely.

Light.

Hopeful.

In Truth.

A friend sang a Steven Curtis Chapman song in church today which I have heard many times from the CD while toodling around in my car. Today, though she said a verse that popped out at me like a flashing light. Referring to God's perspective on life the song said, "To Him the future is history." THAT was so AWESOME!!!! I know God is omni-present, but to think of it with those words in mind allows me to REST in the fact that He knows the big picture. I am to trust Him.