Thanksgiving is over and we are all still stuffed! Bags are being packed and plans are being completed - we leave in 5 days .... actually 4 1/2! The jitters have set in - I am never nervous until things actually happen. Now the doubts creep in .... will she like us? What if she truly doesn't want to leave her foster family? What if she kicks and screams and spits on us?
All this is very typical with an older adoption, so I need not be surprised. She will need time to adjust, to grieve, to heal, to bond. I will try my best to keep my eyes on the Lord and watch Him work His miracles - as He has done already with child after child. A week tomorrow, Jing Dong will become part of our family .... forever ... "till death parts us; for better or worse, in sickness and health, in good times and in bad." She will change; we will change - we will become a "new" family as one more adds her dimension, her personality, her flavor to our life. Our home will never be the same.
I am ready - as the Lord beckons us to come, to complete what has been started .... what HE has started.
Wrap us in Your peace, Father, and keep us calm - calm in Your assurance of Jing's place in our family. The Red Thread is being drawn, shortened and we will soon meet the daughter that You have prearranged for us since the beginning of time.
Thank You, Lord!
Mary
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