Day 24 of our adoption journey

If you are honest with yourself, others and God there have been times you have actually wondered what God was up to in your life during various situations and such.  We all have had those thoughts and when God finally revealed to us what he had done then we just sit back and kind of drop our jaw in disbelief.  Why?  We just did not see the blessing coming because we already had it worked out for God and he did it another way that might have seemed to impossible or way to simple.  But if you have done much studying in the Bible you will find in the book of Isaiah chapter 55 that is the ways of God. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9 KJV). 

Have you ever prayed for something and then got excited like a child at Christmas in anticipation of what was in the gift that has their name on it?  I sure hope so because if you think about it that is exactly what it is like sometimes when God answers our prayers.  We just need to turn I over to him and like I mentioned earlier this week “Stand still and the see the salvation of God.”  Do you think the three Hebrew men knew that God was going to meet them in the fire? No but he did.  Do you know the Children of Israel knew God was going to split the Red Sea for them to pass through safely to the other side and use the same miracle to destroy their enemy? Do but he did.  And do you think that Daniel knew God was send his angel and shut the lion’s mouth that night in he was cast into the lion’s den?  No but he did.  Why? Because “His thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways his ways.” Now that is something you can write home about.

Don’t you just love it when God puts someone in your path to help you when you don’t even expect it?  Well today that happened for Kathy and me.  We had gone down to order our dinner and was trying to communicate with the waitress.  We had put several meal words, categories and such into MS Word and had them translated into the language of the Eastern European country we are in.  And she was trying to tell us what they had and did not have well, of all days there was a gentleman that was bilingual in the restaurant and his second language was English.  And he was a native of this country.  We offered a couple of suggestion and let me tell you they were SO Delicious.  Because since we arrived here we have wanted to try as wide of a variety of the food as we possibly could.  So with the help of this person God put in our path today we were able to enjoy a native dishes of fried pork.  Believe me it was so good  and had caramelized onions and garlic along with other spices, and an overall nice change and very delicious and satisfying dinner.  This person sat and talked with us for about 30 or 40 minutes and was just generally a very nice person.  I sure hope we see him again before we leave.

We have been working on some of the words to use such as Thank you, Good Day, Good By and Delicious.  The people here are also helping us and they think it is very nice that we are trying to speak their language.  I have told some that while “H” may not be able to speak it he can read it so I am working on that one as well with the aid of a Good English to other language dictionary and also a couple of apps loaded on my Android pad.  We are making it with the help of God and then there are those time his just totally surprises us and puts an English speaking person in our path.  The more I am with the people here the more I like them and enjoy being with them.  And the more I serve God the more he just totally amazes and blesses me and I just want to serve him all the more.

Today was a very good day and I am thankful to have been a part of it and that God allowed me to see it start and finally see the sun set in the west.  Also today he gave us a good day with “H”.  The person who has been helping us was with us again today.  She is helping us more that she even realizes because we are learning more each day how to help “H” transition from his current language and Sign language to the English words and the American Sign Language.   He has pretty much memorized the letters and the signs but there are two he is still having a problem with but the reason the signed letters he currently uses are just like two of the ASL signed letters but they are total opposite.  So today we worked on those more and showed him the differences in them. So to end the learning session today we started him on the signed numbers.  He is learning very fast and we are so very pleased but then God is still in control and he is helping “H” even when “H” does not even realize it yet.  But we do because we have been asking God to help him and to help us.

 

This is picture of the Day, but I want to you notice the bottom picture observe it closely.  Do you see it? You may have to look very hard to see it but you will, but just to give you a little help, Kathy calls me a Geek.  But just look, she has and Android pad in her hand, an Android Phone on her lap and a second cell phone and neither of them are mine.  And she calls me a Geek, well it would appear this Geek has rubbed off on his wife because she has all of the classic characteristic of a Geek based on this picture.  Love ya Babe!