A Drink in the Desert

We haven't heard from you in weeks, nor you from us.  Sadly, we're partly to blame as we've been so consumed with our lives here, with the people here, and our responsibilities here :(  In this "desert", part of me tries to question if this is really what God wants for all of us; or if it's just something we want so badly, that we're blinded from reality and seeing only what we want to the way we want to.  

I admittedly worry if it's the wisest choice for everyone involved, and if we can be what you deserve for us to be...especially during those days when I feel I'm failing the children I already have.  And when those concerns aren't consuming me, both Dad and I fear we'll be unable to get to you before it's too late, before the INS closes the door that once seemed wide open....

BUT then, I remember the miracles in every step thus far.  And that God isn't a vending machine or Santa Claus, existing to satisfy my needs or meet my goals!!  His Ultimate Goal is that all of His children would come to worship Him--everything else flows from that and toward it.  We want you to be ours, Luda, and we hope you want the same.  But He's been teaching me that regardless of our will, His will still be done.  And thank goodness, because His is always so much better than anything we could imagine or hope for (Ephesians 3:20)!!  

Whatever the final outcome of this process, you are already loved and will continue to be...and we all can trust that He'll reveal that to you in the way that will speak deepest to your heart.  

"You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in You" (Isaiah 26:3). 

Thank You, Jesus <3

His Perfect Timing

Yay!! We got your papers back from the State Secretary's office yesterday, and "coincidentally", Angel's Haven just happens to be sending a package of inquiries to your orphanage...slated to be mailed this Friday!!!!  Yours will be in it!  As we keep discovering, and you'll soon come to know, the perfect timing of everything has been no coincidence at all.  He's making crooked paths straight in hot pursuit of you whom He adores :o)
   
"I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron. I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name" (Is. 45:2-3).

<3,
Mom