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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Waiting
A few weeks ago we watched the movie Fireproof. On the movie there is a song by John Waller called “While I’m Waiting.” If you haven’t heard it, or if you aren’t hearing it right now, scroll to the bottom of this page and press play on the player, it should start.
It was just one of those things, one of those times, when something just almost knocks you over with the impact. The song is such a reminder to me, as I have been doing a lot of waiting, and I continue to wait even while it is hard, because I am going to continue to choose to wait on the Lord.
There has been a lot of things that have filled up the waiting, lots of work, lots of busy time, lots of preparing.
A few weeks ago finally we started seeing some of the last months of waiting and praying take shape. And it has been awesome, joyful, scary and exhausting all at the same time. But we do continue to wait.
I’ll just be completely honest when I say that we can’t do this ourselves, so we truly do appreciate all of you coming around us in prayer, and often leaving encouraging words. Some days are just so tough and I come home to a sweet word from friends and it is a wonderful reminder of the Lord’s faithfulness!
A couple of weeks ago I shared that we were asked to take 5 babies. One, Luke, came last week. When Luke came we found out some paperwork we thought was all taken care of was not in place. Boy did the enemy use that to put a truckload of fear in my heart! There are so many things we face day to day that everyone doesn’t know at home. When Luke came he was, and still is, very blue, purple even. You may be able to imaging the potential implications if he died in our care. Because of this I had to tell them the other babies had to wait until we had formal paperwork all lined up.
In the meantime one of those 5 babies died. As we are going through this, it has of course involved a lot of prayer and talking to people. The orphanage has asked we take the babies as soon as we can, they know what a bad situation they are in and truly want help. On top of that we have been asked to take 5 other babies, all with Downs Syndrome. We now have a total of 9 babies waiting.
The situation as it stands right now. We can’t take the babies until we have a car. At this point if one of them gets sick, we have to take them to the hospital, we can’t risk them dying in our home, and we can’t do that quickly, especially if they are critical, without a car. Bill is going to look for a car today. Perhaps the Lord has one waiting for just the amount we have right now, I don’t know, but I do know this is something we have to have.
Once we have a car we need 2 major things, we have to start a 501c3 in America AND we need to start renovations on a bigger building. We have an apartment to put the kids temporarily, but we only have about 3 months at that location.
No matter what today, or tomorrow brings, the Lord gave me this beautiful promise the other day.
Psalms 78:72
So He fed them according to the integrity of His heart; And guided them by the skillfullness of His hands.