Monday, August 31, 2009
By the way...
By the way, for those interested, our dossier is in Washington D.C. right now visiting the Secretary of State (that's right - Ms. Hilary Clinton herself - or someone representing her anyway), and the Ethiopian Embassy.
Waiting, Waiting, Waiting...
Waiting, waiting, waiting...
Can I just say I am getting tired of waiting? I want my child... or children. And I really want to know just that - is it a child or children? When I pray for her/ them, I want to pray specifically. I am tired of saying, "Lord protect my daughter, or my two daughters, or my daughter and son..." Waiting is hard!! Let's see, its been 9 mos. since we started the process ... and I am used to getting my child after 9 months - I guess I have been spoiled. Well, technically, its been longer than that, because we started adopting from another country a year before we started Ethiopia, and then it fell through as quickly as it started, and then we prayed for a year. So really its been more like a year and a half since I wanted this more than anything.
So tonight I am reminded of something I learned recently in my Beth Moore study on Esther. I wrote down the following:
"If God tells us to wait - we have to trust Him that His will is working - things in the heavens are coming in line with His will. If we wait on the Lord, we will renew our strength (Isaiah 40:31). If we are waiting on the person/event; our strength will be depleted."
Amen... but it's still hard.
Can I just say I am getting tired of waiting? I want my child... or children. And I really want to know just that - is it a child or children? When I pray for her/ them, I want to pray specifically. I am tired of saying, "Lord protect my daughter, or my two daughters, or my daughter and son..." Waiting is hard!! Let's see, its been 9 mos. since we started the process ... and I am used to getting my child after 9 months - I guess I have been spoiled. Well, technically, its been longer than that, because we started adopting from another country a year before we started Ethiopia, and then it fell through as quickly as it started, and then we prayed for a year. So really its been more like a year and a half since I wanted this more than anything.
So tonight I am reminded of something I learned recently in my Beth Moore study on Esther. I wrote down the following:
"If God tells us to wait - we have to trust Him that His will is working - things in the heavens are coming in line with His will. If we wait on the Lord, we will renew our strength (Isaiah 40:31). If we are waiting on the person/event; our strength will be depleted."
Amen... but it's still hard.
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