movement

You have given me direction...an outlet...an action for my unsettled heart.  Thank you, Oh Lord, for you are always so very good.

And although this new step is not what I thought I was waiting for, I can see how this is better.  Your ways are always better.  And I also see how I may not have arrived at this point if I was not so frustrated, so impatient, so anxious to go...move...and do.  I see how you were building in me a breaking point of sorts- something to cause the right action in my life.  Something to get me to say, "Well, then fine!  What can I do now for these children, if we aren't going  forward with adoption yet?"  Something to move my eyes off my wants and my plan and seek yours...to truly look for you and where you would have me go.

I am walking down a path, today I know was hand-crafted for me.  You prepared this for me- I feel it.  And it is an amazing feeling to be deeply breathing in what you have planned...to step out and watch you provide.  Lord, it was less than 12 hours from when I actually articulated my desire to make receiving blankets for orphans until you gave me a place for that to happen- a church so willing to participate.  It was like you were merely waiting for me to move, so you could act. (And I have been thinking the reverse all this time).

I have said (many times) that I see adoption as a God blessed endeavor...something that truly pleases you, an effort you willingly support.  I can't help, but think that this too is a God blessed endeavor.  To care for these children through something so simple as homemade blankets, pleases you just as much as opening my home.  For both require a broken heart and a desire to "defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and oppressed."  (Psalm 82:3).

Bless this effort, Oh Lord.  Have your hand upon it and bring about your glory as we step out and reach to love on the loveless, the forgotten, the poor and the lonely.  As we act as your hands and your feet, provide what is needed to do what you have prepared in advance for us to do.

To you be the glory.  Amen!