Answered Prayers

Our adoption journey already has been a long litany of answered prayers. It has been a faith-building journey, where we have been forced to come face to face with what we really believe, and what we just say we believe.

We all say God is in control. That God will take care of us. That God will work everything out. That God is trustworthy and faithful. But, for us, we haven’t had to rely on only Him. Sure, there have been times when we turned to Him, but there was still a part we could play. These last couple of days, we have come to the end of ourselves, and forced to make our faith more active and real then ever before. There have been times when there was nothing we could do ourselves – it had to be all God.

And you know what? He is indeed faithful and trustworthy. He has taken care of us. He is working everything out. He is ultimately in control.

When I was crying and missing my kids terribly Saturday night, my in-laws called and we were able to talk to Lillia. When we shared our struggles with paperwork and asked for some volunteers to handle the running around, we not only got volunteers, but also had 3 churches in Moscow, 2 in Kiev, 1 in Georgia and 1 in Florida (that we know about!) praying for us. When we prayed for our social worker, away on vacation, to somehow check messages, she not only checked her email, but immediately sent a wonderful note of encouragement and our homestudy addendum. When we prayed for our local immigration office to process our paperwork quickly, they handled it in one business day, and the cable was waiting this morning at the Embassy.

That is the type of God we serve. That is the type of God that loves us all dearly and draws us near to Him

God Bless you all. Thank you for continued prayers. God truly answers prayers and we are so blessed that you have joined us on this journey. If you haven’t already, please take the time to sign our guestbook (click on guestbook link above). Everytime we get on the internet, the first place we go is the guestbook to see if there are any new entries.