Maybe you do all these things but ultimately you still must wait, we all must wait. But does God mean for us to be idle while waiting? I doubt that very much.
My job situation is very tenuous at the moment. Find me someone in the US who thinks they have job security. I need to figure out my job situation or we will not be able to pursue this adoption at this time. Fortunately, I am frantically looking to fix this situation but while I do that I'm asking myself what God wants of me right now. I can't seek new job opportunities all day and night. So what does He want me to do or to discover during the time I'm not out solving employment issues?
I KNOW that he did not put the conviction of adoption into my heart so that when an obstacle came along impeding it I would be able to justify abandoning His idea. I use all capitals on the word know because I KNOW in every cell of my being that God wants me to go to Uganda. I KNOW that God has planned for a specific child for our family who is waiting. I know this like I know I am mother. I can't be convinced I'm not a mother; I am a mother. I know this like I know my eyes are green. They are green. I know we're going to Uganda to adopt. We are adopting because God told me so.
But until then? Get your house in order, girl! Here's a partial list of my to-do's. Some of them trivial, yes, some of them just huge looming to-do's that I hate thinking about.
- Strip and seal the stone in the shower. DONE
- Create family budget and ways to save. DONE
- Sell furniture from business. Working on it!
- Input 2011 bank statements into Quick Books. Ugh!
- Write (yep, I'm writing a book!)
- Get the kids teeth sealed and get Kate's glasses ordered...believe me, this has been on the list for a while
- Clean out the kids bedrooms. Ick!
- Write thank you cards to those who have supported our adoption.
- Support others who are a step ahead of me in their adoption process.
