Thanksgiving praise!

Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!

For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 100:4-5

Yesterday we received this wonderful email:

Your kids cases have been filed in the Addis Courts! It takes about 2 weeks to hear of a date right now.

That was fast! God is a movin' people! What does this mean, you ask?
The girls papers have jumped through one set of hoops and have to jump through one more set (the Addis courts), before they are officially our daughters. As the email states, we should find out that day in about two weeks. If we are successful in the second court date we should travel to Ethiopia about 4 weeks later! We have heard that right now they are assigning new court dates for January. So we are expecting ours to be around then. That means at the earliest we would travel in February! We can't believe it. What wonderful Thanksgiving news!

I am reminded this Thanksgiving season of what the Lord has called us to do. It's not about looking good, or better or holier than another; but about being His servant. Acting in obedience to what He asks and joyfully and faithfully living it out. I am honored and humbled to know that the day is near when I will become M & G's second mommy. We continue to pray that their hearts are being prepared just as we ours are.