Thank You GOD!!!

Here is the latest email from my agency!

Your documents have been accepted by the committee!!! Hurray! Now we wait while the committee looks for a referral. This is a big step forward!!!!!
I was going to call you, but it is 6:22 our time, a bit early where you are.

adding on

The Committee is reviewing my new documents is what I have learned from my agency, I had emailed her asking her if they had been submitted and she said they were reviewing them and we have no word yet. SO we wait.

All you need is love!

Well anther week went by and we did not get our referral. I did not hear at all from my agency last week, I would prefer an email saying "nothing new to report" as apposed to quiet. We had to do some additional documents for the committee, and I think they were being submitted today. So if they read them at the time of submission then I would expect some word, well today. Most likely they submit and then they review. I am hoping to travel soon! I pray to God daily for speed, for patients, for faith and for love for ALL the children of the world. I send love to my baby everyday, I think this poor child is alone and feels like she has no family who loves her and needs her, yet she does! She has a whole world that she does not even know is waiting for her. She does not not that her 9 yr old brother wants, no insists on being the first person to hug her and kiss her when she gets to America. She does not know all the love that she will get by becoming our little girl. She is SO loved!

Rainbows and Miracle

Life is God's Novel let him write it!!!

I love this, I read it and it keeps playing in my mind. More and more this is the message I get at every turn!

Today I sent off more paperwork that the committee wanted so they felt they could give us a miracles.

I need a miracle.

There was a rainbow today coming home, maybe...

God's timeline

So the BIG message I have gotten this week, is that God is in control not me. I have been following a blog of a Mother who just posted a count down to her daughters life threatening surgery. This little girl's Mother had made such peace with this event and even found peace, not in loosing her, but in comfort of God's arms, God's bigger plan, God's will. This little girl is still Fighting for her life, it is in God's hands now.
So bringing this to my life, God is in control. Everything is blessed. The adoption is so much slower then I thought it was. I am sadden and stressed by this and at times ready to give up, yet I always have the strength to move forward. I love her, just the idea, the dream of her, God will get her to me! God will make my dreams come true! He knows her, he found me for her and has tried to slow me down so I could get her, funny me I keep trying to go at my pace and I keep thinking she needs me, she needs to be home, NOW, but God is making me wait. I would like it better if he got her ready for me a little quicker, but then that is not the lessen I am to be learning from him.
For now I pray for her, pray that the committee will be satisfied and will send me to go to her, meet her, go to court for her and then bring her home and give her the love, the family and the life she is meant to live!

Hope is what gets us through

Deuteronomy 7:6 that says" Out of all the people on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be His special, treasured possession" and that you are the God of "Hope" filling all that trust in you with joy and peace so that we may overflow with "Hope" by the power of your Spirit(Romans 15:13).

More Paperwork!!

The committee wants more paperwork from us. The good news is that it means they are looking at our file and "thinking" about us. The bad news is the documents are from CA and they take a very long time to do anything!! I expected them to be here by Friday and as of today they are not hear. So I wait and try to "learn" that God wants this to take a little while longer, now me I am ready to go today but the bigger plan is not that. This process has definitely brought me closer to faith and God then I have ever been, even through the birth of my two boys, clearly a gift from God, did bring me as close to God as I feel now. It is the control issue that has brought me closer to God. I am not in control, normally I control everything and this I can not control. So I must give the control to God. No matter how I beg him to bring me to my child, my sweet little girl, he is asking me to learn to be patient. That process is growing my faith.

Blog I follow

SO I have been flowing several adoption blogs and one of them has a special place for me. This family has no children and has been trying to adopt for at least a year, that is how long I have been following and they have been waiting for close to 2 years, I think. Anyway each Monday I read this persons blog and I feel her pain, I share it even though I do not know her. I am her. Only she has so much faith and such a close relationship with God that thru reading her blog I feel closer to God myself. So each week I read to see how she is coping and what news she has and I have come to hope that she gets their referral before we get ours. How could I, mother of 2 get yet this 3 rd little priceless girl, before this young mother and father to be. Even though I am at much less desirable age then them I KNOW they had to go before me, and they have! So now it is only me left! My Turn!! I want my girl and know God will bring her to us! For my internet blog family, Best wishes and THANK YOU!!

45 things to live by.

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio

"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret,you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles
. 34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's,we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."