Patience!

This has been an extremely exciting time. We had our travel meeting yesterday which was a conference call with our travel director and the 19 families that are going with us. 19 families! Some are adopting babies and many are adopting special needs and older children, all girls except for one boy ;-) We can't wait to meet everyone in Beijing. They all come from different parts of the United States and have completely different stories as to what brought them here. Many have blogs and I can't wait to read them, I'll add them to my blogs I follow. There was a glitch with getting our travel documents out this week, so please pray for our group that all the documents get delivered next Tuesday (some families are traveling Wednesday!).

As each day passes we get more and more filled with wonder as we anticipate meeting Molly. What will she think of us? Will she know? Will she understand? Will she have been prepared? How will she grieve her foster family? What will she be like? How will our communication be?

There is no question for us that God has orchestrated this amazing event, and been guiding us all along. We are so thankful. Nervous? Absolutely...I have a verse on my desk in the kitchen that I read several times a day:

Phillipians 4:4-9

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus...Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - think about such things...
And the God of peace will be with you!

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