Trust & Prepartion

A week or so ago I was reading in Mark, Chap. 8:1-10. Jesus tells the disciples he feels sorry for the crowds who have gathered and have no more food to eat. Most of them had come a long distance and wouldn't have the strength to get home. The disciples ask how they could possibly feed all the people. Jesus asks THEM how many loaves of bread they have. They answer seven. So Jesus took the seven loaves and thanked God for them, broke them into pieces and gave them to the disciples who then distributed them to the crowd.  Everyone ate until they were full and there were still seven baskets left over. Jesus fed four thousand people with seven loaves of bread.
This verse was so encouraging to me and not because I have ever wondered where the money would come from for this adoption but because it just reaffirmed that all He asks is what we HAVE. He will do the rest if we're willing to let Him. God knows we don't have all the money for this adoption but He just asks what we have. Well we have willing hearts, room in our house and hearts and that's all. HE will provide the rest.
I was also thinking this week as we were at J's Dad's church about all the people there who are rallying around us and how God prepared them for that. After a couple spoke last year about Haiti and brought their little boy they had adopted from Haiti with them to speak at their church almost everyone started sponsoring children from Haiti. What if God hadn't primed their hearts for the plight of orphans? I am amazed and yet not at the same time-He is just sooooo good!!
He also brought to my mind all the little boys I've babysat over the past four years. What amazing preparation for our youngest!! Since birth, she's not had all of Mommy's attention. It's always been shared with older siblings and other little boys her age. God is one smooth operator!!!
I love looking back at how God's hand has guided everything. His plan is the only one I want to follow and I continue to look forward to meeting the little boy He has had planned for our family before the beginning of time.

Auction

We are in the process of waiting :) It's the name of the game at this point and only just the beginning...We have had our physicals done and are just waiting for our Dr.'s to get the paperwork done RIGHT. Who'd of thought that it'd take so long for them to figure out how to fill out a form?! No worries though because we're still waiting to get our home study rough draft back from our social worker. The only thing we need other than that is info on J's life insurance policy. I have the forms all ready to send to the USCIS when we get our home study back. If they approve our form then we get the coveted I-171H (which means we are allowed to adopt internationally.) From there our dossier will get sent to Ethiopia after a few hands see it first. So that's where we're at with the paper chase part. We're hoping everything will be sent off across the pond by the end of this year!! Lord willing...
Our auction is this Friday. We're very excited. We've got some great items to auction off and have some yummy desserts on the menu. The gentleman doing the auctioning is doing it for free-we've never met him but he does auctioneering for volunteer purposes only and is a pretty funny guy I've heard. We can't wait to see how the Lord will provide!! Please pray for this event for us. More updates later...