Monday, May 28, 2012
Reflecting with Gratitude!
Today is Memorial Day...a time when many enjoy fun in the sun...We are spending the 3 day weekend at the lake, relaxing and spending quality time with friends and family. However, for many Americans, this is a day of unbelievable sadness. As an Air Force brat, I knew the days, months and years of being separated from my father. When my brother was born, my dad was in Korea (during the Vietnam War). My brother was 8 months old when my father first met his son! We have audio tapes from those times...I was a confused little girl, asking the tape recorder, "What are you doing in there? I miss you...I sure wish you'd come home!" My daddy came home, just like my grandpa came home to his little girl (after World War II, following 3 1/2 years in battle with German soldiers). But, little boys and girls never saw their daddies (and mommies) again! I am a grateful American! Freedom was won with the blood of our courageous men and women! I look forward to teaching my children about these heroes whom we honor this and every day!
But, today is not a holiday in Honduras, so I am hoping to hear from our attorney. The committee did not meet two weeks ago, but they did meet last Friday. School ends this week...and starts again August 27th. I would so love to have the children home by then...13 weeks...praying specifically!
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Tomorrow...
Matthew 6:34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Tomorrow will likely be the committee meeting in Honduras which paves the way for our first court date...but maybe not. It is not that I am not hopeful...it is just that I have learned to wait patiently, because there is no certainty to this adoption process. I want to plan so many things...but we continue to live in limbo...our reality for over 3 years. I know that this is not only troublesome for us, but for everyone we engage with on a daily basis. People like to make plans and I can't blame them...I do, too. But, everything hangs in the balance as we await the outcome of this meeting!
I dream of travelling to Honduras again, hugging the children, singing and playing and reading, memorizing scripture together, laughing and cuddling...getting passports, going to the Embassy, getting Visas, making plane reservations, saying Goodbye to Honduras and Hello to Houston, visiting family and friends, birthday parties, soccer games, piano lessons, Sunday school, new friends, swimming, enrolling in school, school shopping, girly girl shopping, scrapbooking, cooking, time with cousin, Daniel, Disney World, the Grand Canyon, learning the states, singing in the children's choir, morning routines, school lunches, night-time routines, evening prayers, family altar, Skyping with grandma, learning English, trips to Indiana, California, Illinois, Tennessee, Galveston, Dallas, South Padre Island, Washington, D.C., Alaska, family dinners, making tamales for Christmas, making tortillas together, relaxing at the lake....molding our children's character and teaching them life lessons, values and watching them grow in Christ. So many dreams...so I wait another day...and another...and another...knowing that God's ways are not my ways, nor his thoughts, my thoughts (Isaiah 55:8). Four Simple Words...."I trust you, Lord!"
Tomorrow will likely be the committee meeting in Honduras which paves the way for our first court date...but maybe not. It is not that I am not hopeful...it is just that I have learned to wait patiently, because there is no certainty to this adoption process. I want to plan so many things...but we continue to live in limbo...our reality for over 3 years. I know that this is not only troublesome for us, but for everyone we engage with on a daily basis. People like to make plans and I can't blame them...I do, too. But, everything hangs in the balance as we await the outcome of this meeting!
I dream of travelling to Honduras again, hugging the children, singing and playing and reading, memorizing scripture together, laughing and cuddling...getting passports, going to the Embassy, getting Visas, making plane reservations, saying Goodbye to Honduras and Hello to Houston, visiting family and friends, birthday parties, soccer games, piano lessons, Sunday school, new friends, swimming, enrolling in school, school shopping, girly girl shopping, scrapbooking, cooking, time with cousin, Daniel, Disney World, the Grand Canyon, learning the states, singing in the children's choir, morning routines, school lunches, night-time routines, evening prayers, family altar, Skyping with grandma, learning English, trips to Indiana, California, Illinois, Tennessee, Galveston, Dallas, South Padre Island, Washington, D.C., Alaska, family dinners, making tamales for Christmas, making tortillas together, relaxing at the lake....molding our children's character and teaching them life lessons, values and watching them grow in Christ. So many dreams...so I wait another day...and another...and another...knowing that God's ways are not my ways, nor his thoughts, my thoughts (Isaiah 55:8). Four Simple Words...."I trust you, Lord!"
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Thank God for...SKYPE!
Romans 8:26
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
This week has been absolutely the most emotional of my life...many ups and downs, but mostly downs! I know these storms in life will come...so grateful God is protecting me during this TSUNAMI! Fortunately, we have recently learned to use Skype...from the desktop, from the laptop, from the IPAD, from our cell phones =) We are CONNECTED! It has been amazing to cry with those I cherish the most over Skype...to see the tears, the anguish, the pain...If there were some way to touch, to hold, to hug...That will have to wait! Until then, we SKYPE! Thank you, Lord, that I am living in this era of technology!!!
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