As We Wait

"Bless the LORD O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name." (Psalm 103:1)

We deeply covet everyone's prayers for our adoption. Too many sad things going on in China with the poisoned milk that has sickened over 50,000 babies. As my heart breaks for these babies I can't imagine what it does to God. As it stands, the CCAA is only doing 6 referral dates per month which means if that continues it could be another 2 years before we get Kylie (even though we are only 5 months away from our date). I know that is probably confusing to most of you and believe me it took me a while to figure it out. On the other hand, I serve a BIG God and He can do what we think is the impossible. We are still believing God and trusting that we will get our daughter at just the right time.

Last Friday we had to get re-fingerprinted for the 3rd time. Can you believe that? Every 15 months our fingerprints expire according to Immigration services. It starts to get more costly having to redo things...there again God has a purpose. In May 2009, our orphan petition expires--it lasts 18 months, so if we don't have Kylie before then, then we will be refiling for that for the 3rd time.

As I type this information, I am by no means complaining. I'm doing it so one day we can look back and recall the journey that God had us on. I believe that through this God is preparing us for something. He does everything for His glory and He just wants us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. Some people have made comments about changing to domestic or to another country. My heart has been burdened for a chinese girl for nearly 4 years (December '04). Brad and I were in prayer about it for a year. Only God has given us that desire and when He does the peace of it is so real. We just know that China is where our daughter is. We have prayed for Kylie Hope long before she was ever born (she still may not have been conceived yet). But our heavenly Father knows who she is and He has chosen her for us and us for her.

As we wait, we want to bless God with our lives. All that is within us we should be blessing God with our thoughts (Phil. 4:8), our tongues (James 3), and be striving to live holy and godly lives (2 Peter 3:11). God has blessed us tremendously through giving us salvation, forgiving our sins, and redeeming us from death.

Holy and gracious Father, thank You for this journey You have us on. Thank You for how You've taught us so many things and how You continue to reveal Your loving presence to us. Help us to always bless You with our thoughts, our tongues, and our actions. We know that from You and through You and to You are all things. In Jesus' name we pray.