Homelife Adventure: Our New Journey Begins!

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Our New Journey Begins!

The Lord has been so good to us as He has prepared us to receive new news for our adoption journey even while mourning the loss of Samuel.
So we are ready to embark on our new journey. We have accepted a new referral for a BABY BOY! We did not start this journey picturing a baby yet it feels right and we are going for it. Our heads are spinning at the thought of night feedings, bottles, car seats, crying, pacifiers, rockers and all! It feels like an amazingly sweet gift from God. His given name is Moges and he is 2 months old today. If things go as is likely we should bring him home before the end of summer. If things go otherwise.........well, as we have already learned, anything could happen. Yet, we are choosing to celebrate and prepare and leave the rest to the Lord.

6 comments:

Carrie said...: Oh Joy! I am so excited for you! Blessings on this great news! You are in our prayers!; May 20, 2009 at 4:51 AM
Jess & Matt said...: So very happy for you. Enjoy cloud 9 for awhile!; May 20, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Jenny said...: I am celebrating for you! What an amazing time for you! :-); May 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Anna Morrison said...: Rejoicing with you!

I wanted to tell you, we just started the foster care and adoption classes here in NC. Think of you from time to time. I like checking in on you and your family.

Much Love~; June 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM
cindy said...: Congratulations to you all!; June 5, 2009 at 3:33 PM
The Redman's said...: It was fun meeting you at Chelan!! Looking forward to hearing good news about a court date SOON!!!

-Suzi; June 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM

Abbott Family Verse 2011

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." "Ah, Sovereign Lord," I said, "I do not know how to speak; I am only a child." But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am only a child.' You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you, " declares the Lord. Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, "Now, I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I apoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant." Jeremiah 1:5-10

Abbott Family Verse 2010

If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own intersts, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, bing in ver nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but make himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the hightest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:1-11

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Our New Journey Begins!

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