Sunday, June 10, 2007
"In lovingkindness all is fixed"
I have yet again to be reminded of God's wisdom over my own so called wisdome and that he rules over each detail of our adoption. We recieved an email from our agency, Gladney, informing families in their Ethiopia program that the Ministry of Women's Affair's in Ethiopia sent out a letter to say they were going to set in place some changes regarding the guidelines for adoption. Two of these guidlines are as follows: Both adoptive parents must be between the ages of 25-55 and the youngest biological child in the home must be at least two years old. For those of you who don't know, I'm 23 and our youngest little munchin is 13 months...so of course this made us a little concerned. I called our agency and was reassured that their goal is to get the families through the program who have already started and they were not worried but cannot give any guarantees as to how things will pan out for us(there aren't a whole lot of guarantees with adoption). These things could easily cause me to fear or doubt God's kindess in all that he ordains. I read this verse and quote regarding fear: Psalm 37:23 "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord." and then: “All (of the Christian’s) course of life is graciously ordained, and in lovingkindness all is fixed. No fickle chance rules us; every step is the subject of divine decree.” Wow! What a refreshment to my doubting soul. I'm so thankful we can feed our faith on the baquet table of God's word. We know all is fixed and ordained IN LOVINGKINDESS. God is designing each step of this adoption to strengthen our faith, to bring glory and honor to his name and to accomplish his ends (which includes the perfect little baby for our family). God has thus far dealt kindly and wisely with our family and will continue to do so. Please pray for our hearts to have eyes to see this truth and humility to recieve what he ordains in this adoption with joy. Hopefully we will keee trucking along and all will be well but we will entrust our hearts to our sovereign, good king. Isaiah 26:3 will be before us: "You keep Him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trust in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock. " I am thankful our God is an everlasting rock. Sure and secure, fully worthy of our faith. On another note, we are FINISHED with our homestudy!!! It feels great to be another step forward and everything went great. Our social worker was very kind and we enjoyed talking with her, it was very laidback. Paul and I had an interview with her as a couple first and then she came to the abode to look around and finish up our interviews. She really had some good tips to help us attach to the baby (Maybe I will post those next time??). So we are marching onward and are very excited about our fingerprinting appt getting done.
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Let me tell you a story that will hopefully encourage you. When we began the journey of adoption, we began with domestic and we had a birthmother who contacted us(she was a college age girl in our church, who had only been attending for a short amount of time). She was certain we were the people to adopt her child. She had two other children(5 and 3) and she had been through a lot, sextual and drug addiction and was on track to getting her life right. We began a relationship with her. She would come over with her kids every Monday night and eat and just talk. We took these opportunites to talk about the baby and how she was feeling, but most of all how was her day in day out relationship with Jesus. I was able to mentor her and love her. When she reached five months we went for an ultrasound and found out she(we) was having a little girl. We were so excited and we had picked out a name(that was Thrus)Anna-Jade. Two days later she came by the house and told us just as heartbroken as she could be that she could not give her baby to us. We all three sat on the couch and cried and prayed and told her that we would stand by her side in this. I went and helped her set-up her nursery and was there at the birth of her baby girl.
I knew the moment she walked in my door that day what she would say and I knew the purpose for our relationship was not to in the end adopt her baby, but to be Jesus to her and to show her who our Savior was.
I could have doubted God's sovereignty in the situation and said she was wrong and that that was supposed to be our baby, but God had bigger plans. Our son came home 5 months later, 5 months! That was the work of God and his perfect plan in action.
No matter what happens, God is in control.
K
I shared with Will the new developements and we want you and Paul to know how much we love you and are praying for God to have His way in this situation. We are so encouraged by your action of faith to be adopting and your testimony and desire to make your family your greatest ministry. I am so encouraged by our friendship and by the sharing of struggles just like this.
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