A good year

Twas the wee hours of Christmas morning and all through the house, not a creature was stirring except mommy. She lay wide awake, fighting back tears knowing Simran Neena should've been here. Her other children are nestled all snug in their beds while visions of an orphanage in India dance in her head. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care and an extra for Simran Neena, hoping she would soon be there........

 Well, its christmas! while reading the Christmas story from the bible last night, my sweet Six year old boy said, "I'm confused how Joseph and God can be Jesus's dad?" So my husband explains it & uses the example of Simran Neena. Adoption is God's plan! Good enough for Jesus! Good enough for us all to be a part of the family of God. Its beautiful! We are not the ones who gave her life, but we will give her love! We don't know much about her past, but her future is decided.....it's with us! We had prayed for a Christmas homecoming but that deadline has come & gone with no earthly hope of that happening before 2014. So I'm sad of course. I guess I'm bummed, so to speak. But my Father's working on it. And he's got the whole world in his hands and everything Is in His timing. I mean God started it so He'll finish it! 

We are pretty much guaranteed that we will travel to India sometime in 2014 but that's the only timeframe they will give us.

Now we did have 1 small victory with the adoption, some papers that were delayed finally going through. And package #2, which was a few Christmas presents wrapped in fancy paper with curly ribbon, should be at the orphanage!!

But I won't be sad today because its Christmas! We celebrate Jesus today! Without Jesus, we wouldn't have felt the call to adopt and even be on this road. So happy birthday Jesus! 

And I won't complain because its been a good year! We found Simran Neena this year. She turned 4 this year. We are blessed in so many ways. It's been a good year! 

And 2014.......that's gonna be a good year!