The Beginning of this Journey...

The Lord began this journey towards our second adoption about 1 year ago. He put on our hearts to sponsor Kay - at Harmony Outreach and we did. When i first saw her, i fell in love with her and prayed for her to join our family. It wasn't until May 2008 that the Lord began to use her to open our hearts to adoption again. That was when we had John Bentley from Harmony Outreach (her foster program) staying with us and he told us that Kay was ready to be adopted internationally. We prayed about her and began the adoption process again. Unfortunately, it wasn't in God's plan for her to join our family but He did use her to open our hearts up to adoption again and we are excited to see where He takes us. We are Trusting in Him.

The Lord has brought Maylynn into our lives and hearts on Nov. 21st (that is when we received her referral). We are excited to see Him bring her home to us. Please pray for the rest of our journey. We can't wait to bring Maylynn home...

Saturday, July 11, 2009

God's Timing

I am so thankful that we are on a family vacation/hockey tournament week right now. I truly thought that this 2nd time around adopting that i would be more patient - i guess God has revealed in me that i still have more work to do with that.

We are busy in Canada and i was concerned last week that if we got our TA while we were gone, then how would i do all of the last minute scrambling of travel arrangements etc... Well, He's answered that with nothing to worry about b/c no TA yet - so, i am able to enjoy our family vacation in beautiful Whistler, Canada. But don't get me wrong, Maylynn is still one of the first things we are thinking and praying about. The minute we wake or get back tothe condo - we are checking email etc... and, i am constantly wondering about the rest of His timing with travel etc... i am slowly coming to the realization that we will not be leaving on the 18th as we had hoped - i am now praying for July, 22nd or 25th (depending on airfare etc.) The longer our TA takes, the less amount of time we will have help with the kids at home b/c my parents will be in Virginia in August. Lance's parents are willing to help out as much as is needed but it would be nice to split up the time between grandparents...

So, we are asking for all of our prayer warriors to be boldly praying for our TA to come through on Monday if that is God's timing:)

1 comment:

Gavin's Family said...

Kirsten, it will all work out. The details always do. Don't you just LOVE Whistler. We have a time share there that we use in December for Christmas every year. Hopefully we can't use it this year, it's around the some time our agency thinks we might be in China.