Trust

We got the call/many emails from our agency, Lifeline Children's Services, approving us to go ahead with the adoption.  We have been sent many emails, all of which we were told to just "look over".  Well, as I "look over" pages and pages of requirements, forms, numbers and acronyms I don't understand, definitions, FBI background information, medical forms, and translation needs, I'm completely overwhelmed.  So much to do, all having to be done at the perfect time to appease the governments on both ends.  We will be in contact with our case specialist shortly, which is who we can defer our endless questions.  I guess the waiting overwhelmed is part of the journey.

Overwhelmed by paperwork, and overly curious about the process, I am quickly reminded that my automatic desire to worry is unnecessary.  My subconscious wants to fret over what to do and when to do it is pointless.  The Lord will continue to renew our strength through the battles; we will walk and not faint.  Our hearts will be at peace and won't be troubled as long as we trust.  Trust is what this process will take the most of.  Every step is complicated.  Every step seems long.  Every step, although one step closer to meeting a child who is in your heart even though you don't know what they look like, is still too far to love on them.  But we will rise, for the Lord is our strength and our shield.  Our hearts will TRUST in Him and we will give thanks.  For without Him, we wouldn't have been adopted into Christ's church.  Adoption is love, and right now, all we can do is trust.

But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.       Isaiah 40:31

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. John 14:1

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Psalm 28:7