Realizing the Fullness of His Plan

I looked back at my first post, today. And I realized just how complex God's plan has been. In my first post, which is where you should start, I recall when God opened my heart to adoption a child with a medical need that I have never considered before. At the time, I read Him to be telling me to adopt this specific child. I see now that he was actually telling me to be prepared to adopt a child with her medical needs.
But how wonderful He is, because in the 9 months following this revelation, Pat & I studied the condition and readied ourself to accept and prepare for the adoption specifically pertaining to "Little One's" needs. "Little One" is a child in China whom God used as a beautiful instrument to teach us much more than we had known of His character and our own.

The beginning of this Story is what brought us to our daughter today. There is so much to this story that I pray will be used to bring glory to God.

We praise Him, for this great gift He has given us. Praise Him through whom all blessings flow!

His work, His kingdom, No boundaries

Check out the link to the right. Jesus in China. Since we began our adoption, I have heard many times. "why don't you adopt a child from America? There are so many in our own country." Well today I was reminded again, that we are not united by the country we are citizens of but the kingdom to which we belong. Our kingdom is not of this earth, it is of Heaven, and when Jesus died on the cross He broke the boundaries that limited His chosen people to Israel. His kingdom is also for the gentiles. This is a world-wide kingdom that has no boundary to His work. It is not just the church to which you attend, nor to the town you live in, nor the state or country you reside. God is a loving God, that desire that all might come to know Him. I have never had the loyalty to a specific nation, myself. Because I see the calling to be so much greater than that. God's desire is for all people to know Him.

Once again we have great cause to praise Him for He works all around us. Lulu is from Henan province and is awaiting the family God has planned for her. This video is about the key work that He is doing in Henan as she waits. Henan is a key city in the Christian movement in China.

"Every minute you're waiting,...God is working" -Oswald Chambers

The beauty in waiting

Really all we need to do to find the beauty in anything is to forget about our expectations. One thing waiting definitely has, is that it defies expectation. There is much to be learned in waiting on the Lord. The most important being that He is the Lord, therefore all knowing and all powerful and every good and perfect gift comes from Him. Without waiting many are deceived to think they themselves know, and have the power, and fail to recognize our sovereign God. Thank You Lord for reminding us that this is your plan and not ours. So when it comes to pass, we can only give all credit to You.