"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"
Jeremiah 29:11
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Blink

This came from a VERY WISE mom when talking about the struggles of bringing home a "less than completely perfect" (but totally and completely amazing) child.



God didn't blink...sometimes he knows that if he gives us too much info in the beginning we'll think we can't do it and not adopt that child....so he has to show us WE CAN DO THIS some other way...that's how it was with our child....and you know what? We can do this! so can you!!



I am constantly thinking about this... how GOD knows us so well. HE KNEW Ben and I NEVER would have said yes to the kids if we knew it was going to be this expensive (we are going to be close to $25K by the time we are done). We were SO fearful about the adoption costs that at times we were paralyzed by it... but through MANY hours of prayer we knew that bringing these kids home to be OURS is what He wanted for us. HE KNEW that we could only say YES to $10,000 - and when we have more than doubled that cost, HE is using His people to help.

God didn't blink!

It was never an acoounting mistake on HIS part and we are so thankful that we are so close to bringing our kidlets home! I can hardly believe how lucky we are to be trusted by our God to do this great thing!

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