The Wisdom of God (The Heart of my Father)

Though I would not recommend it, we are almost done with our school for the year.  We worked at high speed pace, including Saturday school days, to finish our year's work before we brought our newest child home from Ethiopia. 

Princess Sweetness is 13 years old and will need our total focus, my heart desires for us all is to just love her without interruption.  The last bit of our school year became just an interruption to my mind.  So I quickened the pace, so we could be as ready as we can for her (and for us!)  I am getting excited now, as we can finish up and still have time to enjoy a few days of organizing around here before my Knight and I have to leave for Ethiopia!

My thinking, early on, was to have closure for our school year, as when she comes I want to be focused on getting to know each other.  Bonding in adoption is the most important thing. 

We have been advised to read many adoption books, through the agencies we have used now and in the past.  Most of the books I have read did NOT apply to any of the adoptions we have done.  Most I found focused on the negative and I refuse to live that way.   The way I see adoption and the process that begins even prior to you being *matched* is spiritual in nature. Something that is birthed in the heart of my heavenly Father and belongs to Him through all stages of the process.

All wisdom comes from God, this is where I will get it for every situation in my life; including this particular adoption.

 Adoption for me begins with God, the waiting time rests in God, the getting time does too; as does the time when you arrive home and become a family.  I haven't read an adoption book yet that tells you to trust God, to bring every detail before Him and trust Him alone to meet your every need. 

You see, He cares so much about our families.  He cares a great deal for orphans and the helpless, their hope is in Him; as is ours. 

I am not saying don't read books, I am saying to filter anything and everything you do through the fingers of the Holy Spirit.  What does He have to say about your life, about your current situation, about your future and your hope? 

I will share what He speaks about mine:

Jeremiah 29:11 (The Message Bible)

I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

So when I bump into people and they say something like, "How old is she?"  and I respond, "She is 13 years old." and they say (and A LOT of them do), "Wow, (big pause) that is going to be a real challenge."  or  "Oh, that is going to be really hard for you."

I am now able to walk away thinking, "Hmmm, God has me covered, I am not in this alone, He is going before me and will certainly bless and keep me." 

Proverbs 8:32-35 (The Message)

"So, my dear friends, listen carefully;

those who embrace these my ways are most blessed.

Mark a life of discipline and live wisely;

don't squander your precious life.

Blessed the man, blessed the woman, who listens to me,

awake and ready for me each morning,

alert and responsive as I start my day's work.

When you find me, you find life, real life,

to say nothing of God's good pleasure.