Monday, Monday

Monday. Not usually a very exciting day. But in the world of adoption, Mondays are exciting! Mondays mean that news can come. Things can happen, things are running again.  Weekends are a good rest from all of the crazy thoughts we adoptive parents think throughout the week, and this weekend was a great distraction as we headed to the mountains with the couples in our small group for a couples retreat! It was an incredibly fun weekend, much needed for all of us, with everything we've all got going on in our lives, and I am so thankful for it.  These past few weeks have been hard. Just plain and simple. This wait is hard.  I had gotten to a point where I was ok with the wait, knew we would be waiting for a while, but now, for some reason, things have changed, and it has just gotten a lot harder.  As we were away this weekend, hubs and I were in the Word together, reading through Colossians 1, and we came across this passage:

 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together." Col. 1:15-17

Oh how our hearts needed to read that this weekend.  Our Father was speaking directly to us, reminding us that it's all in his hands. He holds everything together, he holds our lives together, our marriage, and our adoption.  Our adoption, that we want to have so much control over, is in his hands, it's because of him that we are on this journey, and it's because of him holding it together that our adoption will be completed. Now, don't get me wrong, we know these things, but as I've said before, it's hard to keep preaching them to yourself over this long, intentional, grueling process.  So our loving Father spoke soft reminders to us this weekend, loving us with his word. For that I am thankful. I am thankful for the gifts of the past week, prayers that have been answered, love that has been shown, faith that has grown. I am thankful for a Father that continues to draw us to Him in this process. And on this new Monday we wait with expectancy for big things to happen!