God's Will

When I came home from China with SJ,

several friends heard me say,

"God would have to write in the sky IF He wanted me to go back."

I remember reading a post by Diana

about a God surprise of their own and thinking that was so amazing~

never thinking it would be about to happen to us.

On January 28, my friend Donna

sent an email with 19 little faces from the BAAS list.

Up until that day,

I had deleted without looking.

God's Will had me open it and I went through each one

until I got to the very last face.

There staring back at me was the sweetest little face

that resembled SJ SO much,

I clicked to make it larger and saw the words Fujian, China~

SJ's province.

That struck me as so amazing!!!

I shared this with Scott and a couple of friends.

Before we knew it,

we had a medical update and new pictures.

The very first picture I clicked on was a photo of a child

standing in front of a sofa in a wonderful place called Phillip Hayden Foundation.

Hanging above his head was a canvas that literally took my breath away,

for you see, that SAME print was hanging on my wall too.

About ten months ago,

Scott had to evict a property of someone that went to jail

and in the midst of all his stuff,

we found tons of art work.

There buried in the junk was a print of Chinese children

playing ring-a-round the roses.

He brought it home to me knowing I would LOVE it~

I did and we hung it right away!

To see this above the little boy's head was a God moment.

I felt Him say to me he would right at home with us

and he was our son.

Hmmmm, now for Scott to know it. :)

He has the biggest smile~

And this pic makes me think he is waving at us...

There have been SO many God moments along the way,

I think God was giving me 'the writing in the sky'!

The passage I shared yesterday from Melody is what spoke to Scott~

and the fact that we are holding and loving precious SJ right now.

We struggled and prayed and cried and prayed some more

for four weeks

and finally decided we did have a son in China

and we couldn't leave him there.

Would it have been easier to ignore him,

not go,

or even worse try to forget him?

Probably so,

because we are not prepared financially once again.

People might say then how do you justify adopting again???

It is God's Will~

His will that we go and His Will that waits for us in China.

He will make a way and that is what faith is all about.

I have chosen Proverbs 16:3 as our scripture to claim for our family~

Commit to the Lord whatever you do,

and He WILL establish our plans.

The only way we will get to China and back is through His providence

and your prayers SO

once again we ask for your prayers as we make our way to

William Scott Minzhong Ankerich.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen.

PS... We received PA (Pre Aprroval) with SJ on Feb 22, 2010

and with Will on Feb 25, 2011~

so we are thinking we will be on about the same timeline~

traveling sometime in late summer.