We received our January number today!!! Seriously, I am SO SO excited about this. I just keep thinking that....any day now....any day they could call us! I keep wondering where I will be and what I'll be doing when they call. Okay, okay, so here is the new number!
Isn't that super exciting?? Isabel's paper link chain is getting so small! She was so happy to tear one of the links off today. Tonight we read Psalm 5 and prayed for our daughter that we have yet to meet. Would you pray for her too?
"Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly. Let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them sing joyful praises FOREVER. Spread your protection over them, that all who love your name may be filled with joy. For you bless the godly, O Lord; you surround her with your shield of love."
Have you all noticed the new design and facelift that the blog has received? Isn't it fun? I really really love it!! I have had the same design every since I started this blog in 2009. I've been wanting something new but I just wasn't sure what to do about it. However, my friend Leigh knew just what to do! She asked me about colors that I liked and anything I wanted to include along with pictures and then wah-lah! I also love that it seems more personal now. I feel like it's a better reflection of our family and I was even able to include the verse from Colossians 2:2 that inspired the name of the blog.
"That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ."
Something really cool about Leigh's new blog design business is that she is using it to help families that are fundraising adoptions! For 3 months, a fundraising family will receive 15% of the profits. SO, you can get a a pretty blog AND support adoption at the same time.
You can check her out at The Crazy Coccoon and see some other samples of her work along with prices!
Yesterday we received our wait list number for December. Our official number is still the same as November, #7. However, since families within our agency communicate with each other, we found out we are "unofficially" #6! One of the families ahead of us received a referral for their child. So we have moved up one number! We're getting closer!
This January makes 3 whole years that we have been on this journey of adoption. It was January 12, 2010 when we were accepted into the Ethiopia program with our agency. It was then that we started fundraising like crazy to get that first amount in so we could begin our home study and dossier paper chase. Some days it seems like this whole thing will never come to an end....like we will never see our daughter's face...but I know that's not true. I know in my heart that we will see her soon. I don't know and understand God's timing but I am choosing to believe that HE is good and that HE is faithful (and yes, I have to CHOOSE, because many times I don't FEEL like it). Some days my heart aches because I just want to know her. It's a strange feeling.
"I don't know what You're doing, but I know who You are." - JJ Heller, "Who You Are"
Here is the verse we are repeating in our family!
"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:
The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness;
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
I say to myself, "The Lord is my inheritance; t
therefore, I will hope in him!"
The Lord is good to those who depend on him,
to those who search for him.
So it is good to wait quietly
for salvation from the Lord."
-Lamentations 3:21-26
