Patience

The next steps towards adopting our child begin next week when we return from our wonderful vacation.  We will be taking an adoptive parent course and submitting our first program fee!  Already we have seen the hand of God working in the financial end of things.  I was thinking the other day, we are going to have to try and think of creative ways to raise money for our adoption, especially towards the end when things get particularly expensive and perhaps a bit frantic.  Of course I'm going on other families stories and circumstances and each situation is different, only our Heavenly Father knows exactly how all this pans out.  I am also finding that I'm struggling with impatience..........why does bringing home an orphaned child take so long?  In our case we are adopting an older child and know that he is probably longing for a forever home and we just want to push everyone and everything out of the way, crawl, climb, swim and move mountains to just get to Ethiopia.........NOW!  Thankfully we can rest in knowing that Gods timing is perfect and with any hurdle or bump in the road or with what we would consider a delay, that His reasons and His way goes beyond our understanding and we can fully trust Him.  So for today, I'm praying for patience and have a heart full of thanksgiving that the One who created the mountains can and will move them for us as we wait on Him and for our little boy.