Praying for Discernment

First off what a beautiful morning with all of the snow! I loved being able to spend some time with my Heavenly Father and being able to gaze out the window looking at his beauty he has blanketed us with! What a wonderful symbol of God's purity! On the flip side when we start playing or driving in the snow it begins to look dirty and loose that purity. This to me is a reminder of how our lives can appear when we don't let God captivate our thoughts and then our actions begin to reflect our behaviors and the purity fades. The great thing is that God's mercies are new every morning and his love endures forever!

I've been guilty of not letting God captivate my thoughts lately regarding our adoption journey. The Haiti adoptions have been closed for now. It is unclear when these adoptions will be open again. If I can be real here... I have had to deal with some hard emotions about this. I have let my human nature of trying to understand captivate my thoughts instead of Christ. David, Lily and I all are yoked on the fact that we know God has called us to add to our family through adoption and we were very sure HE had called us to adopt from Haiti. Now it is unclear of when God wanted us to adopt from Haiti. It seems that God may want us to wait a couple of years and in the interim adopt a child from elsewhere. We've been praying to be open to adopting more than one child so maybe both children aren't coming from Haiti. Maybe a child from here or Ethopia and then a child from Haiti. So as many people keep asking us what does this mean for our adoption, we are seeking wisdom for discernment on that very question ourselves. Many articles we have read and interviews we have watched about the adoption situation in Haiti state it could be 2-3 years before they will open it back up.

As I stated in a previous blog that the realization that our child probably just became orphaned is still in our hearts and could mean that we adopt here in our own country while we wait for that child to be deemed "orphaned" and not just "displaced". Really at this point of our journey the only truth we know beyond a shadow of any doubt is that God is on HIS throne and HE is full of Goodness and Love. Romans 8:28 "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."

For now, we are going to keep moving forward with raising money for our adoption fund. We want to be ready when God says Scott family move! We want to be ready whether that means Haiti or another country or domestically! Our home study is almost complete but the completion of it has been put on a temporary hold as we wait upon the Lord for direction. We are going to research possible domestic adoption avenues and look at other countries as we seek HIS will for our family. We want to be prepared to meet any opportunity that God may present to us in the coming days ahead. We will continue to serve as we wait upon HIM.

We are still selling our Adoption Rocks T-shirts. Adoption still Rocks no matter where the child is adopted from... can I get an AMEN! We still need to recoup the money invested in the shirts and we still need to raise money to bring home our child from where ever he/she may be right now. As before, if you do not want a shirt but want to donate please feel free to do so through the donation button. If adoptions from Haiti were to open back up in a short period of time or if HE tells us to move in a different direction, we would need about $3,000 to keep moving forward.

Keep praying for God to bring our child home in 2010.

In HIS grip,
Cindy