Dossier sent

So today is an update on our adoption. Our dossier has been sent to Ethiopia. Some of you may read dossier and wonder what that is. I would do the same if i was not adopting and have no clue of the process. The dossier is a huge packet of information about you and why you want to adopt. It is our home study, pictures of our family, our house, letters of reference, government background checks and criminal background checks. A lot of information that is used to help match us up with a child. But really it is actually God matching us up with a child. Some of you have asked, "so now what?" Now we pray for our child, we pray for God to work in us as a family to prepare ourselves for the new phase of our journey. And we wait for God to pick our child. We are also writing grant letters to help with the financial aspect of the adoption, our God is a BIG God and he as confirmed so many times in us that we need to continue in Faith and that is what we are trying to do. We would appreciate your prayers for the child, for our patience and for God to work in us but also our family as we prepare to change the look of our family a little but, even though the outside of our child may be different than us he or she is still made in the image of God. We are all made int he image of God.

Worship

So I was reading today and I read a statement I didn't agree with at first then I gave it some thought and I still and wondering is it true or not. The statement is, "The greatest pleasure of the Christian life is worship." What do I think about that? and what do you think about that? when I think of pleasure as a Christian I don't always got o worship. Or maybe my idea of worship is wrong. I guess if we want to understand this a little more fully we need to understand what worship is. What is worship? the dictionary describes worship as respect, reverance paid to a divine being. That is how the dictionary describes it.
If worship is not my greatest pleasure than what is? what is your greatest pleasure as a Christian? is that worship? maybe the statement is true I am not sure but something for you and me to chew on and run our minds thru

What are you

I recently read a devotional that has me thinking about who I am and what I live for. I will give you a little bit of my thoughts on it and hopefully you can ask yourself the same questions.
You have to start by reading John 12:23-26. After reading this passage I was posed with the question. Am I a believer or a follower? at first I thought and of course I am both I follow Jesus and Ibelieve in Jesus, then I got to thinking what does it mean to follow? The disciples were not asked to believe they were asked to follow, Luke's gospel talks about following being an act of taking up my cross and loosing my life for Jesus, have I done that? as I got to thinking more about this believing and following I put myself in a boat I wasn't thinking I was in and a boat that I don't think Jesus really wants me in. His ministry is all about being a follower and trusting HIM. Have I taken my cross? Have I gave up anything for HIM? or am I just a believer? This simple truth and simple question has got me thinking, it has be evaluating who I am and what I am to Jesus. I pray that Jesus will show me who I am and how I can move from that to what he wants me to be. I pray for you as well that God may show you who you are and what he wants you to be. Be who God wants you to be not who you want to be

Papers sent

Yee Hah, we have finished out dossier paper work for our adoption. If you are not familiar with adoption the dossier paperwork is a huge packet of information with all your personal information that gets reviewed in the country you are adopting from. This is the final piece and now we pray and wait to get a referral, the referral is our child. They say the referral takes anywhere from 12-15 months, once you have the referral you wait 2 months until you travel and pick up your child. So we are realistically thinking that we will have our child that God has picked out for us sometime in the winter of 2010. In the waiting time we are praying that God will pick the right child and he will work out his plan for us and the child we know he has for us. This has been a time we have been waiting for and now it is another hurdle that has been crossed. Praise the Lord.