The Adventure Continues

Moses answered the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still." Exodus 14:13-14



The Lord gave me this verse through my friend Katie yesterday and then reinforced it through my Bible study where that same verse was in our video. At the time, I actually didn't know it was for me and thought it was just for Katie. But oh how I love our God. He does not limit Himself to working in just one of us at a time. Praise Him!

When I got home from Bible study last night I checked my e-mail and had an e-mail from the birthmother whose baby we had been moving toward adopting. The Lord had led her back to deciding to place her baby with us for adoption and she wanted to know if we were still interested. Praise the Lord. We spoke with her last night and the Lord continued to confirm to us that we were to once again move forward. We leave for California tomorrow. I just love that this was not a surprise to God. He saw the whole thing and is still seeing it. I love that He is God over time and can move mountains.

So please pray for us! I have a TON to do today and probably should not even be on here to update, but I just had to let you know what God is doing! Please continue to believe with us that the Lord will bring this about and pray for each and every detail to continue to fall into place.

Play Date

For some reason when I think about play dates, I think of suburbian living where we have to stimulate childhood relationships with things called play dates. But lets face it, we really just want a little more time for us moms to see each other and the fact that our kids get to play together makes it fun too. So this past week my MOPS group had a play date. We went to this little place called Mini Town where they have everything set up like a little city. Benjamin was not really ready for most of it, but it was still fun. He enjoyed wandering around looking at everything and especially liked playing on the little cars. Most of my pictures are not the greatest because he was never still, but here they are none the less.

A powerful story

This is an incredible story of God's power and mercy. Watch and be blessed and pray for our nation as we come up to this election.

http://proverbs14verse1.blogspot.com/2008/10/astounding-story-born-alive.html

What Now?

While I’m Waiting
John Waller

I’m waiting
I’m waiting on You, Lord
And I am hopeful
I’m waiting on You, Lord
Though it is painful
But patiently, I will wait

I will move ahead, bold and confident
Taking every step in obedience

While I’m waiting
I will serve You
While I’m waiting
I will worship
While I’m waiting
I will not faint
I’ll be running the race
Even while I wait

I’m waiting
I’m waiting on You, Lord
And I am peaceful
I’m waiting on You, Lord
Though it’s not easy
But faithfully, I will wait
Yes, I will wait

I will serve You while I’m waiting
I will worship while I’m waiting
I will serve You while I’m waiting
I will worship while I’m waiting
I will serve You while I’m waiting
I will worship while I’m waiting on You, Lord.

We went to see the movie "Fireproof" this past Saturday and this song was in it. The very concept made me cry as I watched the movie and I thought how I wanted my attitude to be one of worship when trials came. Two minutes before the movie ended I got a phone call that is making me put this song into action in my life. The mother of the little baby boy we thought we were going to welcome into our family has decided to parent him.

So where do we go from here? We don't have answers. Last week was a week of miracles. Getting everything together for a homestudy update can take weeks and ours was completed in three days. This included getting letters from our doctors, a child abuse registry background check (normally takes 2 weeks to get it back), and reference letters from three of our dear friends. We had no idea where the money would come from, but God took care of those details as well. He allowed me to find all the people we needed to work with between TX and CA in one day's time. Today our homestudy visit was completed. We felt like we were supposed to go ahead and finish it out in faith that God did not do all of that for no reason. Our social worker told us she has never had someone submit all the items needed for a homestudy so quickly. And yet here we are waiting to see what His plan is. I think the hardest part of having faith comes in the waiting.

I am reminded of my study of the book of Daniel a couple of years ago. In the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego where they were being thrown into the fiery furnace, they came out without the smell of smoke on them. My study brought out that in our lives, we can come through trials with bitterness or bondage (smoky smell), or we can come through having been refined by the fire. I want this to refine me. 1 Peter 1:7 says: These (trials) have come so that your faith--of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire--may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Oh Jesus, please refine me through this waiting time!

Thanks for taking the time to read my really long post. We would appreciate your prayers as we wait to see what the Lord is doing.

Please Pray

Well I have to make this really short because our computer crashed so I am at the library and they close in 8 minutes. But I wanted to share our good news! God is blessing our family with another baby. I will post soon with all the miraculous things He has done to bring this about, but please pray for us as we finish up our home study and fly to CA next week. God is amazing and I can't wait to share with you what all He's done. Pray and believe in faith with us that He will complete this adoption process.

Pumpkin Patch

I love fall! I love the colors of fall and the decorations of fall, and I love pumpkin patches! There is a church not far from our house that does a great pumpkin patch every year and I took Benjamin this morning. I think he thought all the pumpkins were balls, but he enjoyed it. We got a huge pumpkin that I now need to find time to carve and then make something fun to eat with the insides. I just love roasted pumpkin seeds. Mmmmm!

Trying to pick up the giant pumpkin
Trying to figure out which one to take home

Company Picnic

I really do not have time to be blogging today, but I just had to share a few photos. This past weekend Matt's company had a picnic and Six Flags Fiesta Texas. We were pretty excited about taking Benjamin on some of the kiddo rides, but he was not impressed with the place. Metal detectors at the entrance were extremely loud and they scared him to death. He never quite recovered. But we managed to get a few cute photos anyway. They had the whole place decked out for Halloween and it was really pretty horrifying, but they had one cute fall set-up so here are our pictures. Benjamin loves to ride on toy horses, so we were pretty surprised that he hated the carousel, but he wasn't thrilled with it at all. Guess he takes after his mommy. I'm not much of an amusement park person either. :)