Lily's Prayer

Trusting....

As I write this words can not express the heaviness our hearts feel for the people of Haiti and especially the orphans. Many people have asked what does this mean for us and right now we don't know the answer to that question. What we do know is that as I stated in our last blog “We know that God has gone before us and we can trust in HIM for what the year has in store for our family.”. We know that now more than ever the need for adoptive parents for Haiti will be even greater. There were already about 380,000 children in orphanages pre-earthquake and now that number is expected to grow tremendously. David has actually said a few times in the last months that he didn't think our child was at the orphanage yet and the realization has set in that our child or children may have just now become orphaned. Last Monday night we were working on some paperwork for the adoption and I was having a bit of spiritual warfare going on because our process seems to be going slower than “I” would like for it to go. Then Tuesday just a couple of hours before the news of the earthquake I was listening to a christian radio station and the gentleman on the air stated “Do not let the enemy steal the seed God has planted in your heart”. That statement was so profound to me because of the way I was feeling the night before and then it became even more profound when the news of the tragedy in Haiti broke out across the media. I then realized that is why I was in the car at that exact time to hear that exact statement. We as a family know that God planted this seed in our heart to rescue a child or two from Haiti and we are not going to let the enemy take that from us!

We have realized that our slow paperwork process has been part of God's plan because all of it would have been lost when the administration building went from a five story building to five feet of rubble. Our plan for now is to PRAY, TRUST and OBEY. We are going to be still and know that HE is God and HE has a plan. We know it is no coincidence that we are already on this journey to adopt from Haiti. We are praying that this will open the awareness and possibly cut out some of the process to move things a long more quickly to help those sweet children find forever families.

Please pray for Mike and Missy Wilson who many may know or have seen on the news lately. Mike is in Haiti trying to bring home their daughter Tia. They were only lacking her passport and Mike is trying desparately to bring her home to the US. Please also pray for the orphans of Haiti as they have no mom or dad to fight for them to have food and medical care. You can keep up with the Wilsons at www.bringtifihome.com.

In HIS grip,
Cindy

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Proverbs 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.