Sown in My Heart: Thank You All for you Love and Support!

Mar 11, 2010

Thank You All for you Love and Support!

I know I’ve been absent lately. Sorry to leave you all hangin’. Things have been nothing short of crazy around here planning the benefit for Lia’s adoption. Things are finally coming together and I’m feeling pretty excited about it all. I’ll keep you posted on our progress but I thought now was a good time for me to thank my family and all of my new friends in the adoptive community who have kept me going during this entire process.

Earlier today I was talking with my friend (who has not gone through the adoption process...YET) and we were discussing just how hard and how many different hurdles you have to overcome during the adoption process.

Funny thing was when I started this journey I assumed as long as Jason and I were responding to God’s call everything would be ladybugs and butterflies. You know kind of like a Disney Fairytale. All the mountains would be moved out of our way, all the pieces would just fall into place and we would skip our happy little tooshies straight on to China and bring our happy giggling girl home. {Ahh how naive right?}

Little did I realize we would have to climb each of those mountains in our way with every ounce of Faith in our being. I was never expecting it to be quite as difficult as it has been with more hurdles and hiccups than I could have ever wrapped my mind around. But the truth is with every mountain we try climb in faith, our success only proves to A) bring us closer to God and B) strengthen our TRUST in the fact that he will provide (even if it always seems to be a the last minute) {smile}

Lucky for us, our faith has given us strength and peace beyond understanding in the midst of complete and total chaos. Now on to my thanks. . . .

The support we’ve received from our family and the adoptive community has been absolutely AMAZING. The prayers and kind words of encouragement we’ve received (when we need to hear them the most) have made all the difference. All of your prayers and encouragement have helped us keep trying even when things seem the worst. I continue to be a firm believer of if it’s meant to be it will be. All we really can do in the end is to step out in Faith and TRY. Oh …..and if at first you fail try some more because

~If God is for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:28-31

THANK YOU!!!
& Blessings to you All!

3 comments:

MandiMarch 11, 2010 at 9:22 PM
No, adoption is not easy. Plain and simple. We have experienced hurdle after hurdle, mountain after mountain, and roadblock after roadblock. The ONLY thing that has kept us going is our faith. Knowing that God is there with us every step of the way, is what is getting us through this.

And now more than ever, we are relying on HIM to not only bring one boy home, but two.

I will be praying that your benefit goes and well and you are able to meet and exceed your goal.

Don't lose faith.

Mandi
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AusMarch 12, 2010 at 5:48 AM
Morning Amanda - I'd add just one line of another passage...."like gold that's tested in fire...." - that's what being an adoptive parent is about! But it's also rewarding enought that we had to go back to that well for a third time before we had drunk our fill...it's all good....and the struggle makes the reward that much sweeter!

hugs - prayers - and Blessings on you guys -

aus and co.
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AmyMarch 12, 2010 at 7:24 AM
You are so right! It is so hard, there are so many mountains, and it often feels like chaos, but God is up to something BIG, bigger than we even realize!

Thanks for the sweet comment on my blog!
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Faith

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
~Hebrews 10:24

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
~James 1:27

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."
~Psalm 91:1-2

Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you. He will make your innocence radiate like the dawn,and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun.
Be still in the presence of the Lord,and wait patiently for him to act.
~Psalm 37:5-7

So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. ~Hebrews 10:32-36

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
~Hebrews 11:1

For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord. Plans to prosper not harm you, plans to give you a future and a hope.
~Jeremiah 29:11

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.
~Proverbs 3:5-8

For this child I have prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked.
~1 Samuel 1:27

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
~1 Peter 5:6-7

A FATHER to the FATHERLESS and protector of widows is God in His holy dwelling. God places the LONELY IN FAMILIES and gives the desolate A HOME in which to dwell
Ps 68:5-6

I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
~John 15:5

I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
~Phil 4:13