Words on the Wait
Sometimes waiting for our beloved daughter to come home is painfully long. I have always struggled with waiting for anything. For example, at our house we eat cake and open birthday presents at breakfast. When God places a desire in my heart, I jump on it and expect for everything to fall in place immediately. My dear sister who is also on this same adoption journey just send me the following piece by Rick Warren. It speaks directly to what God has been teaching our family. We have seen that even in the midst of the delay, as we long daily to hold our daughter, there is along with it a joy in knowing that God is using this time to prepare us for His calling on our lives. There are words written in the front of my Bible that keep running through my mind. At the time I did not record who actually said these words, but they have given me hope many times since. "Commit your ways to the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. (ps 37:4) Sometimes your "loves"