For those last few of you that are still checking this blog I want to give an update. Basically where we are at, is still waiting for our case history. It now is going to have to be re-done by another woman from the ministry of health. We spoke with her on the phone last week and she was very nice. She said it was her goal to have it done by the end of January and have us united with our children by mid-February.
Where I'm at is very similar to where I was at 8 years ago concerning a different situation. God had laid Steve, my now husband, on my heart and even a woman had predicted that we would marry (she knew us both
separately, Steve and I were only
acquaintances). I had certainly been open to other possibilities for marriage but Steve was
continually on my heart. When I was single and I would begin to get a "crush" on someone I would pray, "Lord, if this isn't your will take these feelings away." He always did, but not for Steve. This seemed crazy to me because Steve didn't seem to notice that I even existed. Looking back I see it as my issue, not his (I was shy and insecure).
So after about a year and half of this can't shake these feelings I finally said "God, I've had enough!!! I'm going to seek your face every night, on my floor, on my face that if it is your will for Steve and I to have a relationship that you will make it happen." I gave God the date of Valentines Day (2001) because that was the year anniversary since that lady had told my mother she had found my future husband, Steve.
Valentines Day came and went much to my dismay but lo and behold Steve and I did have our first date just a week later on February 22, 2001 and were married June 15, 2001.
I know that my resolve is is very similar to what it was then. I will be praying every night, on my face, on the floor, that if this adoption is God's will that he would make it happen by mid-February.
My brother in law has been in Liberia picking up his two boys and while he was there he picked up our children as well and kept them at his hotel. So they have had a taste of what it is like to be "rescued", loved, and wanted. When he dropped them back off at the orphanage this morning, our middle child of the three, Serena cried and cried and cried.
Gidstina our eldest, kept asking him, "When are they coming?" Gideon, our youngest, told us on the phone, "You should come".
We would ask for your prayers with us that our case histories would be done by the end of the month!
This is Gidstina with the sucker in her mouth!
Serena is on the left side of the nanny in the back, Gidstina is on the right side and Gideon is in the middle front!
Serena and Gideon
Little Gideon is squatting with the yellow shirt on...
Gidstina
