Life has changed dramatically since my last post. I have two new children (adopted in December of 2007), Victoria, now three years old and Aaron, two years old. My sweet prodigal son made a decision to get help and went to Teen Challenge (The threshing sledge in action! :).
I won't even try to catch up and tell all the wonderful stories, the hard stories and lessons learned just since last February! But I am going to try this blog thing one more time.
Holden has been at Teen Challenge since June 27th. We can't have any contact with him for 30 days and let me say it has been excruciatingly painful!!! I think and wonder about him constantly! I pray often and hope with great expectancy! The other day God breathed a new word into my quiet time...
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. " Isaiah 43:18-19
Doesn't that make you smile :) God is so faithful! It just makes me wonder what is coming next! I know throughout this last five years He has been true to his word everytime!!!! So I will just wait and keep hoping!
The journey of adoption has provided some of the greatest and happiest moments of our lives but also the hardest! Knitting two new little souls into a family is just not something that happens overnight or without conflict....as usual the LORD is showing me my own dross in this journey...he is revealing to me my own selfishness, impatience and the need to grow in my faith. I have so much to learn!
I know this, that Victoria and Aaron were ordained to be in this family! Though I did not give birth to them they are a part of me....they fit here....there are HARD days, but I can't imagine life without them!
Well, for now I will close but hopefully I will do better keeping up with this.
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