Still Believing...

I just called and cancelled our plane tickets to Ethiopia this weekend. We are still believing God for a miracle next week when the court will rule on whether or not to give us a new expedited court date. Interestingly enough, today the entry in my Streams in the Desert devotional focused on the verse "You will not leave in haste" (Isaiah 52:12). I couldn't believe that when I read it. Talk about relevant to the day I had to cancel plane tickets! The author writes, "You may be sure that God will never say to us 'Stand still', 'Sit still', or 'Be still' unless He is going to do something."

So for today, we are still - waiting for God's intervention to deliver our girls. Please pray with us vigilantly that the hearts of those in power will be softened next week and that all obstacles will be removed to allow our girls (and the many other children affected by this) to "come forth" to forever homes.

It's raining now and today I'm finishing up packing the girls' suitcase so we are ready when God moves. I had to rebook different dates in order to keep the free tickets we got with the donated airline miles. It was hard to know how to approach this given that there are still so many unknowns right now. The airline had tickets available on March 10th and so I booked them. Wouldn't it be cool if that date worked out perfectly?