WE ARE OFFICIALLY LEAVING FOR CHINA!!!! October 1st at 10:42 we will be off for China to go get our girl!! We finally got our Consolate Appointment for October 16th which means Gotcha Day will be October 5th or 6th. I can hardly wait. It feels like a dream and I don't want to wake up. I need to start packing but I don't know where to begin.
We survived Hurricane Ike without any damage but some of my family didn't fair so well but all are safe and sound so we are blessed. Keep everyone in your prayers. Some are just without power and some need to find another place to live. They are all staying here for now and I am enjoying their company and glad to be able to help them in this small way.
UNTIL FOREVER
This morning in China a mother cries
She'll never forget her daughter's eyes
Her heart is broken and filled with pain
Her tears run down like the falling rain.
She has no choice but to leave her there
The cost of keeping is too much to bear.
She hopes her daughter will one day know
True love can be found in letting her go.
This morning in China a baby cries
Hungry and scared as tears fill her eyes
Her mother has left her in this public place
Another lost daughter of the Chinese race.
Someone passing has heard her soft moan
She is soon taken to a foster home.
It's here she'll reside in the care of another
Until she's adopted by a brand new mother.
That very same day in the U.S.A.
A woman cries as she starts to pray
Her heart is heavy but filled with much love
She prays for a daughter she thinks the world of
"Dear Jesus, I ask that your arms would be
Wrapped tightly around the one picked for me
Guard her in China until I make my way
and then in my arms she'll forever stay."
-Tom Fisher
Romans 8:15
Ye have received the Sprit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
