“I wait
on the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope. Oh Israel, put your
hope in the Lord for with the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is full
redemption”
Psalm 130:5,7
Wait to
get in to nursing school. Wait to figure out relationships. Wait to find a job.
Wait to adopt. Wait to move to China. Wait to once again hold the children in
my arms that I love so much.
Some of
those times listed above have turned in to the biggest blessings. I could not
have dreamt what the Lord had in store for school and my career path. Others,
well- I am still waiting.
Now that
I have started the adoption process it is once again time to wait. Wait for a match.
I am
waiting to find out who my little girl is. It is so wonderful to have my part
of the adoption done. Now it is out of my hands. It could happen any time any
day…or I could be waiting till next year. But surprisingly there is a calm that
is over me. Perhaps it has been the other “waiting” moments that have taught me
how to trust the Lord more completely. Though I know full well I am still
learning.
Each day
I wait means more time to pray. More time to read about Uganda and learn about
my daughters cultural heritage. More time to accrue PTO and money for the
adoption. More time to… grown in trusting the Lord.
I just
wanted to give you a little update on where I am at. The $6,000 I received as a
grand from Show Hope is pretty much what I needed (practically to a T) for all
the rest of my adoption fees.WOO!! Now
all I have left to come up with financially is my travel fees and costs. It varies
as far as when I will be traveling (for airfare) and how long I will have to
stay in country (could be up to 8 weeks depending on how fast the judges make
their ruling). So I am guessing around $6,000 left to go. If you know of any hook
ups for cheap air fare let me know or if you know of anyone in Kampala Uganda
(where I will be staying most of the time) I would love to connect with them.
If the Lord stirs your heart to give to baby Barnes’ adoption fund I am always
so thankful for that (www.adopttogether.org/roseb).
The generosity and support of so many people has been so encouraging and mind
blowing! I am thankful for you all!
Keep me
in your prayers. Some days I feel a
little numb (maybe subconsciously trying to protect myself from getting too
excited when the wait could be long), some days I am tired, some days I am
breaking out a ton, some days are just perfectly normal and full of joy. It is
hard to know how your subconscious is processing everything- but sometimes I get
little glimpses in to what looks like stress. Probably from the inability to
plan or control anything. But then I just pray some more. God’s timing is so
perfect, if the world were run off my timing I would make a mess of the planet
in less than 2 seconds. So I am grateful for the protection that comes from
waiting on the Lord.
We wait
on the Lord and we place our hope in Him. For in Him is unfailing love and full
redemption.
One step
closer to my baby girl!!! big hugs to you all!!!
~rose
In my
readings I have found some statistics that just made my jaw drop. just food for thought:
·
There
are 53.1 million orphans in Africa.
(What is crazy about this
statistic is that is only includes children with dead parents. It doesn’t
include children who have mothers who are prostitutes, who live in a dirty mud
hut with their ten siblings and see their mother once every couple of week. There
are slums in Africa where the population is 75% children. babies taking care of
babies. No parents in sight. It also does not include the children who escape
to the streets to rescue themselves from
an abusive father or a dying and equally abusive mother…who knows the actual
number of children living without love/safely/ food/shelter…)
·
30,000
children die each day in Africa of starvation or malnutrition.
·
314
million Africans live on less than $1.00/day
References: www.sos-usa.org.
and a book by Janine Maxwell It’s Not Okay with
Me.
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