Waiting on the Lord...

Why is it so hard to wait? This season of waiting has been a peaceful one but there are times when I wonder how much longer will we have to wait? And questions of "Am I waiting the way you want me to Lord?" "Lord, help me to wait faithfully...completely trusting!!'

~How long until P has a new job....
~How long until we can bring our next peanut home...this is the hardest one for me to wait on :) I feel like our little guy is waiting for us and that thought rocks me to my very core!! I am confident that my Jesus is loving on him and protecting him until it's our time to come.

My God is faithful and His plans are perfect and if He is calling us to wait, then we will wait...I will say that I can't wait till He says, "GO...GO...GO"....hehehe...

So, I started looking up bible verses on waiting. WOW, there are a TON of them...think God is trying to tell us something :) I am waiting on You my precious Master, my precious Daddy!!

Here's a few:

"And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting. And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: and hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." Romans 5:4-5

"Be waiting for the Lord, and keep his way; and you will be lifted up, and have the land for your heritage: when the evil-doers are cut off, you will see it." Psalms 37:34

"Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your Savior." Proverbs 20:22

"Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honored." Proverbs 27:18

"And those who have knowledge of Your Name will put their faith in You; because you, Lord, have ever given Your help to those who were waiting for you." Psalms 9:10

"I am waiting for the Lord, my soul is waiting for Him, and my hope is in His Word." Psalms 130:5

"When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, His heart was turned to me, and He gave ear to my cry." Psalms 40:1

"Love is never tired of waiting."1 Corinthians 13:4

"So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting." Hebrews 6:12

"And so, as the result of patient waiting, our forefather obtained what God had promised." Hebrews 6:15

"Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come."

James 5:7

"Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near." James 5:8

AWESOME Adoption shirt

This precious family is fundraising to bring their 2 sweeties home from Uganda. You HAVE to see these super-duper cool shirts!!! Click on the flower!

Spring Cleanin' Baby

What is your first plan of attack for spring cleaning?

I'm thinking....clean carpets and some fresh paint BUT I have to weed through each room first. The sad thing is once I'm done weeding out each room, I don't want to clean carpets or paint anymore...maybe I should do that first ;)

Please Pray for Stellan

UPDATE 3/26: Sweet Stellan has not broken out of SVT for over 16 hours now. They are going to have to go to more drastic procedures to basically flip/shock his heart out of SVT. PLEASE, PLEASE be praying...I can't even imagine the fear this family is feeling. They are hanging very tightly to our Lord.

Although I don't know this family personally, I will say that I feel very attached to them. I have followed the miracle of their sweet Stellan since the beginning. Please pray as he fights for his life...his sweet family loves the Lord deeply. Lord, if it's your will, please allow his precious heart to flip out of SVT and to be completely healed...keep this sweetie out of V-Tach...Father, continue to comfort his mama and papa and give them the strength to endure this.

You can click on his picture to follow their blog. For the most current updates, you can read her twitters on the left hand side of their blog.

LOVIN' the Beach!!

I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE going to the beach and have passed that love onto my kiddos ;) We had a beautiful day down here in Southern California a couple of weeks ago and we decided on a whim to go to the beach with both my sisters and their families. Talk about FUN!!!

The boys were ALL over the place...made it impossible to get their pictures...grrrrr :)

Someone want to tell me where is my baby boy?!? He is so grown up!

Our nephew

Almost all of them...
The BOYZ

Sweet, sweet niece baby "B"

Our pretty girl!

Naaa, she doesn't like the water one bit.

This picture shouts "Talkin' to my Jesus"

Daddy's girl

My older sister and family

~Our crazy bunch~

My baby sister and family

Yahoo...I'm back!!!

I have sure missed you guys! Hmmmm...what's new over here....not too much.

Still no job for hubby but God is AMAZING. He is providing in ways I never could have dreamed of!!

Hubby's health is fabulous and all is absolutely CLEAR!! They will do a follow up procedure in 6 months and every year after that. I'm still so blown away with what all the Lord has done with this situation.

Okay...my "big" project I've been working on...This year our agency will be celebrating 50 years of building families. I came up with the idea of creating an album with as many Nightlight families as we could. We ended up with over 130....some even from the early 60's. My friend Courtney and I have worked every waking minute over these last 2 weeks to get the book complete for the big Nightlight Gala on March 28th. We went to print today...YAHOO!!!

I sure wish there was a better way to show you our pages--can't share the whole album for privacy issues :( The red aroud the edges and spine are not in the original.

Off to see what you all have been up to...I have a feeling it's going to take a few days :)

Missing my blog...

I am knee deep in an awesome project for our agency...I'll show ya next week what I've been working on. It has consumed every spare minute :)

I have missed checking on all of your blogs...I love you guys to pieces and I WILL be catching up soon. I pray you are all well!

No new news, either...just keep praying...HUGS!!

BENIGN!!!

Okay, so the biopsy of the intestine lining came back clear!! And the biopsy of the 'new' polyp came back benign!!

We still have a zillion questions and of course, they can't see us for 2 more weeks to answer those questions but the good news is there is NO cancer.

The biggest question we have is 'was that a new polyp or residual from the first polyp?' If it was a new growth, then that is a problem....so now we wait some more...we are getting good at this waiting...maybe God is preparing us for the wait for our next peanut...shhhh...don't tell Paul...hehehehe...like he doesn't know....LOL!!!

Definitely PRAISING our Lord...still confused with unanswered questions...but PRAISING our Lord for His mighty hand of protection!! Thank you Lord!!

Thank you for your love and prayers...you guys are awesome and have blessed my heart so deeply!!!

No news....

....doesn't the saying go 'no news is good news'?!?! No test results, yet...I guarantee the nurses are tired of this squeaky wheel :) Better bake them some chocolate chip cookies!

Let Your light shine down on me....

I just LOVE this song...the first few verses speak so sweetly to my heart. My Jesus is the Calmer of the sea...the Calmer of my heart. In the moments of scary uncertainty, how awesome is it that we can cling to our Lord and He is faithful to calm our hearts. I simply can't fathom His love for me!!! Enjoy this beautiful song...hoping for pathology results tomorrow :)

The Calmer of the sea
Here in this room with me
So gently welcoming
The weakest things in me
You are the blood over
The door of my heart
What pain You spared me from
How could I know it all?

Oh wonderful love, You died for me
The power of Your life is in me

Father, let Your light shine down on me
Father, let Your light shine down on me
NO MATTER WHAT THE DAY OR NIGHT MAY BRING
Father, let Your light shine down on me

Oh Jesus, You became what was my deepest shame
That at Your very name
My calloused heart would change
How could You, oh perfect One
Love me, when I have done nothing that's worthy of
My freedom You have won

Oh wonderful love, You died for me
The power of Your life is in me

Father, let Your light shine down on me
Father, let Your light shine down on me
NO MATTER WHAT THE DAY OR NIGHT MAY BRING
Father, let Your light shine down on me

Open up the heavens
Poor down Your Spirit
HOLD ME GOD
Jesus, wherever You lead
I'll sing harmony
HOLD ME GOD

Father, let Your light shine down on me
Father, let Your light shine down on me
No matter what the day or night may bring
Father, let Your light shine down on me
~Bethany Dillon