God is on the Throne

MOW@ did not write our letter of recommendation, so our case was not able to move forward.

We are moving to Plan B ...

Our agency has already started the process of transferring the paperwork for our children to another orphanage that has the necessary licensing for international adoptions. Once this paperwork is completed, they will begin the referral paperwork and process all over again as a new case. Through the normal channels this process will take 4 to 5 months to complete. We are praying for God's favor that we will have a shortened time frame.

Our hearts are hurting, but we are trusting God. He showed me on Saturday that this whole licensing mess IS the miracle. Our kids should not be coming out of Ethiopia. They were taken to an orphanage not licensed to adopt them out of Ethiopia. But by this miracle, MOW@ said yes long enough to bring them this far in the process that they have been placed into our family and will be coming home to us. We rejoice in this miracle!

We ask for continued prayers that every step of our paperwork will be granted favor. Our God is faithful and we are clinging to Him alone!

Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,

and its people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,

and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
He brings princes to naught

and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
No sooner are they planted,

no sooner are they sown,

no sooner do they take root in the ground,

than he blows on them and they wither,

and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
"To whom will you compare me?

Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:

Who created all these?

He who brings out the starry host one by one,

and calls them each by name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength,

not one of them is missing.
Why do you say, O Jacob,

and complain, O Israel,

"My way is hidden from the LORD;

my cause is disregarded by my God"?
Do you not know?

Have you not heard?

The LORD is the everlasting God,

the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary

and increases the power of the weak.
Even youths grow tired and weary,

and young men stumble and fall;
but those who hope in the LORD

will renew their strength.

They will soar on wings like eagles;

they will run and not grow weary,

they will walk and not be faint.

Isaiah 40:21-31