Right this very second, things are a bit haywire with the adoption process. If you are reading this just after I post it - please be praying. There are many uncertainties right now, and my heart is bursting a bit to see how God will work in and through all of this.
It's a different kind of labor. Instead of laboring in the hospital, preparing to give birth to children, I am sitting at home - praying. Praying and hoping and trying not to agonize over all that I cannot control.
Some things are the same as a physical labor - I am shaky, and I feel like I might throw up. And I don't know when the babies will come. Will it be today? Will it be tomorrow?
At this point, I am quite torn on which is harder. This not knowing is hard on the mind and the heart, and the information I have is discouraging. And just as I had to hope and pray that the babies that came out of me would be healthy and come in God's time, I have to turn these over to the Lord as well. Again. If they are to be ours, if they are to be healthy - none of this is in my hands.
And just as my physical labors were long, so this one seems to be. Longer than I had ever thought it would be.
But, I trust a good God who promises good things, and I know that he is the Deliverer of his people. Hopefully he will deliver these boys into our care, and if not to us, I know he must have a better plan for all of us. Our prayers will not be in vain. This labor is not in vain, and I am trying not to grow weary.
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