TRUST IS A FUNNY THING....

I find it much easier to trust in "God's plan" when His is aligning with mine!  When I can't see God's hands I need to remember to trust his heart.

Each time we turn in more forms we hope it's the last time and we will get our date to travel next.  But yet again, we were told we needed to update forms again!  Our forms are actually 6 months old now, the Ukraine likes to have several updated at the half way mark.  Most of them were easy enough to redo, drive to Salem to apostille and then up to Vancouver to drop them off at our agency.  A few of the forms are going to be difficult to get and I'm trying to work on that.  The good news is that because our forms only are good for one year, we are supposed to be moved up to the top on the "pile" once we submit our updates.

I was trying to fall asleep the other night and a poem that I learned in high school came to mind.  It's a very famous poem by Robert Frost called "The Road Not Taken" and it ends:  

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.  

Looking back in high school I could not imagine how my son would have been born with Down Syndrome and how I would grow to love him and this path that God put us on so much that I would want to travel it again with another child who needs a mother.  I know I'm not the only one on this path, as I follow several families who are adopting children with DS in the Ukraine and Russia.  One family particularly is facing a huge roadblock as the judge denied their adoption of a little boy with DS on the opinion that he is "not socially adaptable" and "would be better off in an institution instead of with a family".  They have appealed to the Russian Supreme Courts and are fighting the ruling.  If you'd like to follow this Alabama family go to:  http://oureyesopened.blogspot.com/2011/03/kirills-story.html   

Trusting God is a moment by moment choice for me at this point on our path, but I will continue choosing to trust in Him.  

I will say of the Lord, 

"He is my refuge and my fortress,

my God, in whom I trust."

Psalm 91:2