Prayer Request

My dad's youngest sister found out yesterday that she may have spinal cancer. She goes into the dr tomorrow to see if it is. I really don't know much yet but I am asking that everyone please pray for her and that the LORD will heal her body.

Update

Its been a while since I blogged. Not much has really happened since my last blog. We went to the informational meeting and got so many of our questions answered. They agency only takes adopting families twice a year. The Spring & the Fall. We went on a Wednesday and the Spring applications were do that Friday so there was no way we could fill out the application in two days. So if we go with this agency we have to wait until the fall to even put in our application and wait for it to be accepted. Once it is accepted it can take anywhere from 6 months to 2 years for a child to be placed with us. We are not sure we want to wait until the fall. So we are starting to look at other agencies. Hopefully the LORD will bring us to the right agency where our little angel will be waiting for their forever home.

Psalm 27:4-14
4One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek:
         That I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life,
         To behold the beauty of the LORD
         And to meditate in His temple.
5For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle;
         In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;
         He will lift me up on a rock.
6And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me,
         And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
         I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.
7Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice,
         And be gracious to me and answer me.
8When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
         “Your face, O LORD, I shall seek.”
9Do not hide Your face from me,
         Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
         You have been my help;
         Do not abandon me nor forsake me,
         O God of my salvation!
10For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
         But the LORD will take me up.
11Teach me Your way, O LORD,
         And lead me in a level path
         Because of my foes.
12Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
         For false witnesses have risen against me,
         And such as breathe out violence.
13I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD
         In the land of the living.
14Wait for the LORD;
         Be strong and let your heart take courage;
         Yes, wait for the LORD

First informatonal meeting

We have been contacting agencies all over Nebraska and we actually have our first informational meeting this Wednesday at 11:00 with Lutheran Family Services. We are hopeful but not making a decision yet. Just waiting for the LORD to bring us the right child. I have been reading a wonderful book its called.Celebrating adoptin the intentional family by Kiberley Raunikar Taylor. It has helped me understand the adoption process through her story and all though we are not adopting internationally like she did there is still a lot of decisions to be made and as she talks about her ups and downs it makes me realize this probably wont be an easy road to take. I just pray the the LORD continues to open the doors he already has. I have taken the advice of the author and praying or my future child an his or her birthmother. I want my child to understand his or hers past. My prayer for his or her birthmother is that I can be a witness to her and she will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and continue to serve HIM. I want my baby to know that his or her birthmother chose to adopt them out out of love. Its crazy I haven't even met a birthmother yet or a potential bay. I don't even know if he or she is even cnceived yet or is growing in his or her birthmother's womb but I continually pray for them and I just pray that He or she will ome to know Christ at an early age. I want him or her to know that I love them so very much and I can't wait for the LORD to place him or her in my arms.

Proverbs 2:6-7 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly

The LORD really blessed

Ever since we decided to make the desicion to adopt it feels like the LORD is opening one door after the other. We have been given referrals for non profit agencies and I recently had a friend who just adopted herself. She was talking to her Adoption attorney and her adoption atorney was able to give me a name of a good one here in Omaha. I am super excited on how things are moving. I mean we just decided on Monday and we already are going to have an adoption attorney and its Saturday! The LORD relly does work in mysterious and wonderful ways. I am so glad that I have HIM to guide me through all these troubles because there really is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Psalm 119:105 Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
American King James Version

Decisions Decisions Decisions

Who knew that there where so many adoption agencies out there. Picking the right one is going to be a journey in itself. I am praying that the LORD will bring us in the right agency for us.