The Journey's end is the Beginning!

The journey’s end is the beginning

 

I remember once saying in this blog that we would believe she was coming home to us the night we tuck her into her bed in our home.........well, she is home!

I can tell you that whatever we thought the trip from Haiti to our home was going to be like, it has been 1000 times better.  She is constantly singing, dancing and skipping whether it is thru the airports, or in our house.  All the time we were able to spend with her over the past 2 years and nine months in Haiti is really paying off as her understanding of us being “Mama and Papa” is only stronger now that she is home.  Of course there are our “down times” when she is beginning to understand the transformation in her mind from Mama and Papa Santa Clause to just plain Mama and Papa, but each day you can see the progress with that “cruel reality”!

 

For example, when we took her to her closet and she was seeing all of her clothes for the first time, she would point to one pair of shoes and say, “pou mwen?”, (for me?)...then point to the next pair and say, “Pou Mwen”?  So instead of going thru each piece of clothing in the closet Kim explained, “it is all yours” which lit her up like a Christmas tree....(oh-oh, she likes clothes and shoes).

 

I think the thing that is most striking is how this was the perfect time to get her home, not a day late, not a day early.  And when we think of all the consternation, the doubting, the anxiety we endured we can only come the shameful conclusion that we did not trust as we should have.  Do not get me wrong, Kim and I did grow in trust and patience over the years in ways that can only be attributed to God’s grace, but why not earlier? Why not fully surrender and trust?

 

I realize that this blog is read by people who do not share our faith and we appreciate that and are so incredibly thankful to everyone for your support, but I am convicted in this final blog to share the amazing clarity of the reality of God in our lives and how we felt His presence thru this process as sure as if He were sitting in our room, which was confirmed by the perfection of the timing to get her home, THE moment in time she was perfectly ready to be with us.

 

As you watch the video, you too will see how this is clearly the time...a year ago she may have been far more traumatized with lasting effect.....a year from now who knows what was in store for her in the poorest nation in the world....but 3/25/14 I can say she was ready to go!

 

 

We have seen God at work, no doubt, as our trust in Him and His plan for us is closer to complete trust than it has ever been, (as we try to get as close as we can while on this side of the grass).  We now know some of the hurdles in Haiti that could have, and in fact should have ended this process at the start.  Kim and I for several reasons are in fact are not eligible to adopt by current Haitian guidelines.  We were told this was no big deal, but over the weekend came to find out just how it is a big deal and how we still got thru the process.

 

God is real and God is with us, and when we surrender to those facts, our lives becomes an amazing adventure with incredible blessings around every corner, including those disguised as troubles.....like how a painfully long and exhausting adoption process really is a time of amazing growth in peace, joy and understanding.

 

Anyway, no more preaching and no more blogs....we will not keep this going as we get the other two but will let you know when they are here if they get here, because Haiti remains Haiti and the process remains iffy, but is in God’s hands.

 

We are a family, the journey home has ended and the journey to her real home begins anew.

 

So many of you have been so incredibly interested in the process and we thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers and we cannot wait for you all to meet her!

 

THANK YOU!!!!

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