Family....

Love to see our girls beginning to understand more and more what a family is--

Shoulder rides--

Playing games together--

Dancing and singing..

We are still cocooning and seeing the importance of it.  So many thoughts about how children from hard places need that time at home--hoping to do a post on it soon.

Adoption is about loss--loss of so much for our two precious girls.  They have been hurt through relationships and their healing will come through relationships.  We have seen that loss shown in many different ways in the last three months--many of the ways not things most people would see as an expression of fear or trauma/neglect.

So thankful that we serve a God of restoration.  We are so blessed to see first hand the beginning of understanding of family and forever--seeing our girls beginning to work through their coping strategies and learn so many new things.

Grateful that as we continue on this journey, God will continue to provide all we need--that what we are doing will be done through His strength and with His wisdom.  Praying for healing.  Thanking Him for the continuing to help us see what is important and keeping us on our knees.  Thankful for His adoption of us and seeing so many similarities.

Asking Him to help us throw off those things that hinder and recognize the sin that is entangling us.  Asking Him to help us keep our eyes fixed on Him and His desires and to run with perserverance--

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, 

and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.  

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith.... 

Hebrews 12:1-2