By Your Side - Tenth Avenue North

I have been inspired this morning by these worship songs, I hope it is just the nourishment your soul needs as well. I had a long conversation yesterday with our adoption facilitator (who I love) and while there is no news that our referral is just around the corner, I was able to glean some insight as to why I ache for my baby. She said that rarely is the case that a couple calls in that has decided to adopt, THAT DAY. Most people discuss, pray about it, research countries, then agencies, then pray about it some more etc. If you know our story than you know that adoption is something we have talked about since before Parker was conceived. (this may come as a shock to some) We have visited this thought of adoption many times over the 15 years we have been married. I would say that God started really whispering to me about three years ago that it was time, I guess He knew how stubborn and hardheaded we are, so He started preparing us many years ago for this journey that we are now on. So when you look at the top of our blog and you see the CUTEST time line ever to bringing baby home and it says 3months and 1week and counting, that is really crap! (forgive me?) It really hasn't been just this short amount of time, it has been years, 13 or 14 really long years preparing for this journey to our baby. Most of you reading this entry will in no way be able to relate, but "CAN I GET A WITNESS?" I am aching for my child, my two greatest kids in the whole wide world are aching for their new sibling, and my dear best husband in the whole wide world, who is patient and trusts in HIS timing, though he may not feel the ache as intensely as I, he is aching for our child also. So this morning I choose to cry out to my Father, my best friend, the quiet comforter of my hurts, and trust in Him to provide rest for my soul, health, love and peace to my child's birth mother, abundant nourishment for my child on the other side of the world; nourishment in the form of love, gentleness, touch, joy, peace, food for the tummy, health and all the other forms of nourishment that only HE knows my child needs. I am blessed, so blessed to know and trust that God will provide.