Kindle Notes & Highlights
Being okay with not being the driver is tough. The more work you put into the adoption, the more deeply entrenched you become, and the yearning to know answers tugs much more strongly on your heart. You must will yourself to hear the Lord’s voice saying, “Just keep pedaling. Trust me.” You must allow yourself to feel His encouraging touch, a reassuring pat on the hand as you ride together.
“You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. But mostly they’re darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win? And IF you go in, should you turn left or right… or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind? Simple it’s not, I’m afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind. You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place… …for people just waiting. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed!” 1
(NLT) I will climb up into my watchtower now
Here is the thing, I have hit the floor before. I have spent time on the floor writhing in pain, unable to control my emotions, body or thoughts and THAT is the very place I found true intimacy with Jesus. I grew up knowing who Jesus was but it wasn’t until I was on the floor, alone, ten years ago that I first really met Him and felt Him. And because of His closeness in my life, from that very place years ago, the floor is actually a sweet place of rest for me. I have prayed over and over again in the last
You will, as we did, bump along the chaotic adoption path, wrought with inevitable doubt. But the faith that you have in our Lord will trump the doubt. You will hear His voice and see His work in the midst of this process. I trust that at the end of the journey you will end up with a baby snuggled in your arms, your lips praising God’s goodness.
“But trust reverses the detours of adversity into highways of destiny.”1
Take time now to thank God in advance for what He is about to do.
