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Sunday,
June 22, 2008
FREE DAY
Today is a free day, and we are spending it getting ready
for tomorrow. We are getting our paperwork in order,
packing a small bag to take for our trip to Philip Hayden,
and resting! There will also be a quick trip to the local
grocery for some food for Philip.
Everyone from our group is gone now. Tomorrow a
coordinator named Shirley from our agency will arrive to
drive us to Philip’s foster village. From that point on
she will be with us. Good thing! Every time Kevin and I
venture out on our own in Beijing, we feel kind of lost
because of the language barrier. We tried to find an
eatery the other night on our own in the high-rise
shopping mall just down the street from our hotel, and it
was like a bad dream in which you cannot find your way
out. Many sales people came up to help us but did not
speak English, so they could never answer our questions.
We kept riding up on the escalators and trying to figure
out the signs, but then we couldn’t find our way back out!
We never did find an eatery in the mall. When we finally
escaped from the mall, we turned the corner and there they
were - the restaurants we had been searching!!
Today when we tried to find a Subway sandwich shop, we
were peacefully walking down a street almost there when a
truck a little ways down the block began to spray
insecticide into the trees. Since the workers sitting on
the truck spraying had on protective gear and they were
coming our way, we decided we needed to hurriedly turn
around and go another direction. Needless to say, we
haven’t ventured out very much today!!
Our friends, Chasity, Travis, and their young son Trayjan
will be receiving their daughter today! This little girl
was a child we thought might be our daughter back in
October. We even had our Bible study group pray about it;
but on the way home from Bible study that night, our son
said that maybe she wasn’t supposed to be in our family.
Rather, maybe we needed to pray for her to find her
forever family. We did just that. The next day this little
girl was removed from the “Needs a family” list and put on
the “A family is reviewing her file” list.
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Getting Philip's things ready.
A bird's eye view of a Beijing street corner.
Getting documents ready! |
A couple of months went by, and one day I was looking at
family websites for those adopting from China. I found
this little girl’s family’s website! I immediately
e-mailed them and let them know we had been praying for
this little girl back in October. Since then, we have kept
in touch. They said they would be praying for us to find
our child, too. Their process slowed down, and when we
found our son, our process speeded up. Because of those
two factors, we are here in China together receiving our
children! This is a great example of how in all things it
is God’s timing, not ours!
Shirley will come for us tomorrow around 8:00 A.M. Monday
morning Beijing time, 8:00 P.M. Sunday evening Indiana
time. It will be approximately an hours drive to the
Philip Hayden Foundation, so around 9:00 A.M. we will
arrive at Philip’s China home to meet him for the first
time. Our lives and his will change forever from that
moment on! We know that your thoughts and prayers will go
with us and envelop us, and we thank you for that. Please
pray for Philip that he has an easy transition to us and
that he just knows deep down in his heart that we are his
mom and dad (and big brother waiting at home). Please pray
that he is not afraid and does very well. Also, please
pray for Kevin and me to have great wisdom and ability in
helping him adjust to his new life. We will be calling Ted
sometime after we receive him so that Ted can talk to him
by phone. I know Philip won’t understand what is being
said, but it will be a connection to his big brother
nevertheless. Kevin, Ted, and I love you all. Thank you so
much for your unending support and love as we adopt our
new little son.
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you“, declares the Lord,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give
you a hope and a future.” |
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