Be Still and Know...

A few months ago, a friend of mine told a mutual acquaintance that we were adopting a little girl from China. Her response? “Oh, you do things the easy way – you just go and pick them up!” Uh…. Yea. The easy way.

I will pat myself on the back while telling you that I just smiled at her and refrained from giving her many, many reasons as to why there is NOTHING easy about it. With that said, I’m pretty much a mess right now, but trying hard to hold it together. I mean, they have to issue us our Travel Approval eventually, right???? We have been hoping for months now that we would have it in time to fly out the day before Thanksgiving. If it doesn’t come by next Monday or Tuesday, that’s not going to happen. At that point, we’ll travel as soon as possible once we get our TA, but our nice, neat little plans that we’ve been counting on for months are going to start getting messed up. I hate it when that happens.

Tuesday, I was praying and talking to God about this whole TA delay thing (well, more like begging…) and I had a verse very clearly come to mind as I was praying. It was, “Be still and know that I am God.” I thought of that verse many times through out the day and tried hard to not worry about our TA.

Wednesday, my dear friend Jacqueline stopped by to pick up Madeline for class and as she was backing out she stopped and said, “Oh Karee! I have something to tell you! I was praying about your travel approval situation this morning and I felt very strongly that God wanted me to tell you this… Be Still and Know that I am God.”

OK God. You’ve got my attention. I will try again today… as many times as needed, to let it go. I know it will happen eventually and we WILL get our sweet girl home with us. It may not work out as perfectly as I had hoped – Tami and Liz may not get to come stay with the kids while we’re gone… little Sophia might have to make the move with all the other Starfish babies to their new home before we’re able to get there for our Gotcha Day… she may turn 2 on Christmas Day in China instead of at HOME celebrating with her family… But I do know that we WILL get her. Eventually.

For now, I will try to Be Still. Because He is God. And I know He’s got this.

Till Next time,
Karee

Psalms 46:10 Be Still and Know that I Am God.