Let the 90 day wait for a court date begin! Almost....! Our Dossier is in the hands of the Ghana director who will take it to the Ghanaian court any day now! Time feels like it is going backwards! We have plenty to do while we wait though, because over the next 3 months we need to come up with about $18,000. Yeah I know some of you are thinking, "wow I can't believe she just told us how much they have to come up with", well welcome to the realities of adoption! Let me just say that is only a portion of what we have to come up with total....and a lot of people in this world spend that much on a vehicle and everybody knows it based on what they choose to drive. It ain't no secret! I also have a motive for telling you because I know that God is going to provide in a miraculous way, and when He provides in one year nearly what we make in a year for us to bring home our precious Akwasi, I want GOD alone to receive all the credit! I have seen the fig tree wither (read the book of Matthew!) and I know what God can do! Now I am telling that mountain that stands in the way of us and our son, to HURL itself into the sea. He will do it! I have faith enough that I believe I will see that mountain (for us the mountain is money...or lack of it! ha!) start moving and plummet to the bottom of the depths of the ocean and then the path will be clear!
Meanwhile, while God works, please pray for us! We are applying for grants, and praying like crazy. I have kidney surgery in July (small operation, but still an overnight stay...ick) and I need your prayers for quick amazing healing afterwards and for our kids while we are gone to Sioux Falls for the surgery. God is good, he healed my kidney for several years I have been able to live with a problem that should have been operated on in 2007, but now that our babies are no longer babies, I can get the problem fixed and live completely pain-free (thank you Jesus for doctors and their wisdom at necessary times!).
Please pray for Jeremey at High School camp this week. Pray that God rocks each of the students lives, literally shakes them upside down and makes sense of His Will for each of their lives! Pray that students receive him, get filled with the spirit, get healed, get delivered, and get called into ministry for life. Pray for the leaders, the speaker, the band, and the camp staff.
In my life as of late, I have realized something huge! I always thought my time was my own. Like something that belonged to me and I can do with it what I please. Well...WAKE UP CALL! God spoke to me this week that "MY TIME" is not my time! It's His time that He has given me. Each day I live and move and have breath because of him! So it's not fair for me to be selfish with it. Will I spend more time with God today than I spent in front of the mirror? Will I allow myself to be completely inconvenienced so that I can reach someone, minister to someone, love on someone, when He asks me to? Will I drop what I think is so important to do something for/with my children that He has so richly blessed me with? Will I choose to get up early to bless my husband with breakfast before he walks out the door in the morning? Will I get up in the middle of the night grumbling and complaining over my toddler who still drops her passy and cries for it? I CHOOSE to do all these things with love, with thankfulness, and with a spirit of working my hardest for the Lord who has given me this work to do. I will do it with all my might for HIM. PERSEVERANCE. POWER. PURPOSE. (Bryan Newswanders sermon last night hit on these three points!)
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