To God Be The Glory!

Since Ben has not had a chance to make a post, I thought I would make one.  Just so you know, God has been blessing us more with each of our visits.  Seeing the smiles on their faces brings such joy and comfort to this mothers heart.  The look of happiness when they see us coming is beyond words.  They are eager to talk to us and learn more about their new home.  They come running to meet us and grab us and give big hugs.  I just want to give God all the praise and glory for being with us through this journey.

All of the teachers and students at the orphanage were very happy to see Pasha.  They kept coming into the room and asking “Where is Pasha?”  They wanted to know if he was happy and he told them that he was.  When the time comes each day for us to leave, they all walk out to watch as we get in the taxi to leave. I have fallen in love with them all.  I pray that God will watch over them as they reach adulthood.  If you have nothing to pray for, pray for these children, they need our prayers.  Remember Jesus loves the little children of the world and they all are precious in his site.

There is one young lady there and she mothers all of the children and from what we are seeing she has the true spirit of a mother.  She has been watching over the children for us, so in return today at the Tuesday market we finally found her the tiny beads she uses to make beautiful pictures.  The picture we chose was of an angel watching over two small children.  I know angels are messengers of God and they do God’s bidding so when we see these pictures what we are seeing is God’s will being done and for that we need to give God honor, glory and praise. 

The scriptures teaches us this, e.g., “And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to bring thee these good tidings” (Luke 1:19 ASV).   And the scripture that drives this point home is “And I John am he that heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things.  And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren the prophets, and with them that keep the words of this book: worship God” (Rev 22:8-9 ASV).

There may be angels among us and we may even serve them unaware but they are not to be praised that honor belongs to God and His Son Jesus Christ.

The Changing of Leaves

Wednesday morning we left home on a journey that took 29 hours of almost constant traveling to reach our final destination.  The journey was very tiring but the rewards were like finally finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  The reason why you may ask?  When we began this second adoption journey, we understood the whole process better.  While there were some changes, not all were bad changes or very different from our first adoption.  We were finally invited to come and go see the two children we grew to love the previous year when we were here adopting our son Pasha.

 

We arrived at the court house around 10:30 AM Friday morning for what we thought was going to be session 1 of 2.  Our facilitator told us the judge said he could probably get this done in one session if the prosecutor would agree, well evidently he worked it out because before we left the court room he approved the adoption of both children.  How wonderful is that, when we found out this could be the case Thursday night we called our daughter, son, emailed a friend I work with, and a close family friend, oh and my momma, and had them to rally the prayer warriors.  Well those prayer warriors rang heavens bell because the judge did it in one session. (Prayer answered!)  Now we are the proud parents of Sasha Joy and Bogdan Loy Dailey, and Pasha’s best friends became his brother and sister and to best part is there are two less orphans.

It very emotional for us as we got to see the child just a couple of minutes before court, and then to see three friends who have been apart for a year just pick right back up like nothing had ever happened;  I pray they will always be like this.  During court I watched as Pasha and Bogdan caught up on a full year in about 10 minutes.  Those little hands were signing so fast it was all I could do to keep up but so satisfying to be able to tell them they now have a momma and daddy and brothers and sisters and an entire family.  I don’t know if they understand the concept of family but I promise you they will very soon.

As we were on our way back to the hotel Friday evening, I was taking in the scenery here because fall is in full color here and the sun was shining and it was like God showing me he put the finishing touch on the day when he moved back the clouds to let the sun shine upon the trees.  It was breath taking and there was a song that came to my thoughts and it goes like this.  “The warmth in winter the flowers in spring the laughter in summer and the changing of leaves the food on my table a good place to sleep clothes on my back and shoes on my feet I have been blessed.  I have been blessed God's so good to me, precious are His thoughts of you and me, no way I could count them there's not enough time so I'll just thank Him for being so kind God has been good so good I have been blessed.”

Even today I have been singing that song in my spirit.  The Psalmist said it best, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,” (Psalms 107:2a ESV).   I don’t want the rocks to cry out for me, or in my place so I cried out my praise to him last night and all day long today.  For bringing us to this point and granting us the adoption of our young son and daughter and also for getting our luggage to us that missed our last connecting flight Wednesday.  God been good, so good, I have been blessed!

Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessed Redeemer!
Sing, O Earth, His wonderful love proclaim!
Hail Him! Hail Him! Highest archangels in glory;
Strength and honor give to His holy Name!
Like a shepherd, Jesus will guard His children,
In His arms He carries them all day long.

Arrival

Ben, Kathy and Pasha have arrived at their destination safe and sound.  Only, their luggage didn't quite make it, so please pray that despite not having proper court attire, the judges will look beyond that in the morning and grant them the approvals they need.  In addition, pray that Ben will be able to find a store that carries the toiletries they need.

A huge prayer request is that they will be able to get their second court date moved up to tomorrow as well, because then, their ten days (of waiting and gathering official documents) will begin on Monday and thus the sooner they can come home!

Blessings,

Big Sister