Looking Forward

Well if you have followed us through this journey you will know that I have not blogged about it like it did the over Christmas.  There are two reasons for that.  The first reason would be that time is precious and we have just been living life and enjoying each other.  The second reson is that it has been harder emotionally during this hosting than the last.  Many nights during this hosting I was not even sure there were any words tahat I could come up with. 

My last post I talked about looking back over the year and reflecting on what God has done through us the last 12 months.  It was at that point that I truly had no idea what God had in store for us as a family.  The only thing that I thought I knew was that it was going to be something big.  When people ask how I am doing I often say that I just wish God would give me a peek at the playbook that he has for my life.  Well this week he gave me a peek.

As we enter our last week of hosting, one of the things that we are asked to do is pick out a verse that the children can cling to and the create a video of the host children holding their "cardboard promise".  The verse we chose over Christmas was Jer 19:11o. Here is a link to it.
The verse as many of you probably already know says this:

 ¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

This week part of the plan has been revealed to us through him. i f you can not tell by the picture to the right, that is not my son Caden sporting the big brother tshirt!  He has said yes to joining our family!  We are now full steam ahead with the process trying to get to L@tvia  as quickly as possible.  We do not know an exact timeline at this point, but we should have one in the coming future.  For now we are trying to get all of our remaining paper work together and aproved, so that it can be sent over for translation!