Easter 2015

We just got back from Haiti at the end of March, and we are exhausted.  We had five mobile medical clinics that we ran and saw about 2,000 people in Port-au-Prince that week.  The mission trip was a success with lots of teaching, a gospel meeting, and you could not ask for a better campaign in Haiti.  We did miss our connecting flight in Miami on the way home and spent the night on the floor in the airport, but we are not too sore anymore. 

We did get to spend a Sunday with the boys.  It was marvelous, and I plan to put a whole blog of pictures from that trip later this month with some video of them also.  I don't have it all organized yet.  We have been too busy.

We found out that we are waiting for a birth certificate for Cherdinor's mother to finish up in the Court's so we can move on to get the adoption decree, and we are praying diligently for this to move along smoothly.

I wanted to post today about some lessons we are learning along the way and since today is Easter Day, it is a good day to think about this.  We were singing a song in a devotional called Everlasting God written by Chris Tomlin and this song touched my heart especially with this process of adoption.  This summer will be three years that we have waited, and waited, and waited, and waited.  We thought that we were waiting for the Haitian government, or the American government, or just the adoption itself.  But maybe we are waiting on the LORD.   The lyrics to this song are as follow:

"Strength will rise when we wait upon the Lord
We will wait upon the Lord, we will wait upon the Lord
Strength will rise when we wait upon the Lord,
We will wait upon the Lord, we will wait upon the Lord

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our Strong Deliverer

You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You do not grow weary

(This repeats then)

You're the defender of the Weak
You comfort those in need
You lift us up on the wings
Like eagles

Our God, You reign forever
Our hope, our Strong Deliverer

'Cause You are, You are the everlasting God
The everlasting God
You do not faint
You won't grow weary

(repeating this last part again and then)

From everlasting to everlasting
GOD, You are everlasting."

This song is taken directly from Isaiah 40:30-31 which states, "Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:  But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary, and they shall walk, and not faint."  KJV

Waiting on the Lord, to me, means that we become completely dependent on God and we let him worry about the things here on this earth because it is out of our hands.  It also means that we are willing to let him decide the terms of our obedience, and let him lead with us trusting in his plan for us.   This process give us time and opportunity to develop faith and trust in God as he watches over our every care.

This concept is invaluable throughout this international adoption.  We take care of every I-600 renewal, every fingerprint update, every home study update, and we let him take care of everything else knowing that in the end it will work out in his time.

Closing out today I want to share with you some pictures of our Skype session today on Easter 2015.  Most of the pictures are from today.   We are playing with their toys for them trying to make them laugh.  We have been doing this every first and third Sunday for three years this summer and it has become part of our routine.  We love this little bit of time to bond and to let them know they are loved and have a home they are going to be part of soon.  They are waiting on the Lord, too.

 



Make sure and read Isaiah 64:4,  "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what He hath prepared for him that waiteth for him."

Pictures from our trip to Haiti in March will be coming soon when I get them all organized.