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Can you spare $.83 cents?
Today I went to Bi-Lo and found Throw-Blankets on sale with your card for .83 cents.
Of course, I bought all I could. Around 48 of them.
It's really hot in Nicaragua during the day and when the sun goes down to them, it's cold, to us it's nice...
So if you can go to your nearest Bi-Lo and buy some I'll store them.
Thanks so much..
Angie
I have had limited access to the internet in the last two days and I'm hating it that I have not sent this out by now but God knows best.
At 8:30 your time on Thursday morning Terry and I will be sitting in the office of Mi Familia (DSS of Nicaragua) submitting out paperwork to be approved to adopt our girls.
This process will allow us to be voted on by the Consejo (Consayhoe) which is like a committee or council. We know already there are at least one problem with our paperwork and so I am just praying it's only one.
The lady we will be meeting with is Dr. Artola. She is a Christian which I am hoping helps me a lot.
My prayer request is that we make a good impression on Dr. Artola and Mi Familia and that our paperwork has been done correctly and is in order.
God's favor has been on us this entire trip and we expect it to be there the rest of the week.
Also, please pray for another mother named Heather who is here in Nicaragua waiting to take her children home. Her paperwork has gotten delayed several times and it appears that she could be here longer. She has been her 6 weeks already. If we all pray together for her we can move her court date to be soon than later. God hears our prayers and acts accordingly.
Even if you get this after we have met still pray... Pray that it doesn't lay on her desk for weeks and it doesn't get lost in the many piles she already has.
Thank you for praying....
Angie
We arrived at the orphanage yesterday to find the kids in disarray. Lately the girls have been very disobedient which is just not heard of around there.
It was so bad that I was in tears by the end of the night. I just could not believe my eyes or my ears.
The director and I had decided that the younger kids would receive their gifts today and ONLY if the older girls were better would they get there’s. I truly felt like it was just the devil trying to mess things up for me.
I just prayed over all the girls and expect a difference today and what a differen a day makes.
The girls were much much better today. They really were their old selfs again.
I gave the littlest girls their clothes and WOW what a show of love. They were so excited. I don't think I have seen such sweetness as I saw today. I so hope it comes out in the video. Once the kids put on their clothes they walked around like they were princesses. It was so so sweet. I can't wait to post the pictures.
Out of all the checking out of clothes, toys, coloring books, etc. I will remember that last minutes I had with the girls. I told that yesterday they were so bad that Ms. Angie didn't want to come back but today I was really proud at how much better they were acting.
The next words broke my heart.. "Ms. Angie, please forgive me for being ugly yesterday, please don't ever stop coming to see me". That came from one of the girls that got sent to bed at 6:30 because of her behavior. All the girls repeated what she said and hugged and kissed me over and over again. It was the most precious moment I've had at the orphanage.
Showing love to the loveless can move mountains, I watched it happen yesterday.
Until tomorrow,
Angie
Last night I had a conversation with someone their adoption paperwork and we began to discuss how important it is to truly trust God.
She said something that really hit me. (Up side the head of course)
Why is it that you can trust God that the Sun will rise in the mornings and the Moon and Stars come out at night but you can't trust him to give you the closest parking spot to the door on a rainy day?
What is the difference? Doesn't it require us to have the same faith?
Do you get up in the mornings and stand up out of bed? You are trusting your legs to hold you up, aren't you? How is that trust any different than trusting God for supplying our needs, healing us, or providing for us financially?
Trust is the Easiest thing to do and the Hardest all at the same time.
If you are facing something and there is doubt in your thoughts, who do you trust? You or God.
The adoption process and the wait is a roller coaster ride for many. Personally, I love ROLLER COASTERS so I can either worry when I'm headed down or I can smile and get excited because I know I'm head right back up.
It's really all in how you choose to look at things. You may be in a situation where there are feelings of doubt and if that is the case just remember what it's like to ride that roller coaster. It's scary one minute but within seconds you'll be laughing your head off.
Trust God for the little things and the big. Sit back and relax and enjoy the ride. You are not in control of where it is going to take you, He is. So let Him drive, you're enjoy the ride a whole lot better if you do. If not you will spend all your time worry about something you can control any way.
We are at peace with this adoption process because we are Trusting HIM and not us and we know that God loves my girls much more than we do and He will see to it that they are in our home not a minute later than He wants them to be.
Are you Trusting Him today? Really Trusting Him or are you trying to control things on your own?
God Bless you and keep praying for us. It’s your prayers that is paving the way for us.
Angie
Oh my, I think I have aged 10 years in the last week waiting on this box to arrive this morning.
