Blessings Come at the Most Unexpected Times

Blessings often come when you least expect them.  That happened to us yesterday.  As you know, we found out that our children's passports expired within six months of when we will be in the Philippines.  According to Philippine law, you must have at least that amount of time left on your passport to be allowed to enter the country.  So, to take care of that little issue we had to come up with $500.00 on top of the very expensive airfare we paid to book our tickets for next week.  Needless to say, we were feeling a little overwhelmed.

God shows up when we are overwhelmed.  Yesterday, out of the blue, we were blessed with a check for $300.00 to "cover our passports".  Those were the actual words written on the memo line.  Money just for covering our passport fees. What a blessing that was.  God showed up at just the right time.  His ways are always perfect and His timing is always best.

Throughout this whole adoption God has taught us so many lessons.  One of the biggest lessons we have learned is to step out even when it seems impossible.  Marshall and I have grown so much in our faith throughout this whole adoption.  If you want to witness a miracle start doing something that will change your life forever and bring glory to our Heavenly Father.  Make that something that stretches you, and causes you to ultimate dependence on someone other than yourself. Step out on faith and do something hard.  God will get the ultimate glory from your faithfulness to Him.

Next week our family will get on an airplane for a 23 hour flight to the home country of our adopted children.  There will be many emotions going through each of us as we walk back through the same doors we did two years ago when we met our daughter.  As I reach down to hug my new son, I will remember the many blessings given to us throughout this journey.  Because so many of you have faithfully prayed for us and faithfully given our family financial gifts, our son will finally be "home."

We will walk this same sidewalk in a week to get our son 

                                                             
 May God pour out His mighty blessings on you because of what you have done to help bring one more child to his forever family. I know many new blessings await....

Lorrie