What we hope will be our final home study, and the
conclusion of our adoption approval, is scheduled for this Friday (prayers much
appreciated)! We’ve been busy making
preparations in our home for our sweet social worker when she arrives. Here’s to hoping that this type-a girl hasn’t
missed a single detail.
Things accomplished:
Fire
extinguisher purchased and ready
Fire escape
ladder in place
Pet license
ordered
Medications
on lock down
Cleaning
supplies under lock and key (that reminds me…)
Things to be accomplished:
Buy a
smaller and easier-to-lock-in-the-toolbox thing of laundry detergent
Locate
missing first aid kit and place it in a readily available location
Finish
adoption profile
CLEAN THIS
HOUSE!
As preparations around here are wrapping up and the waiting
game is on the horizon, we can’t help but take a second in this season of
Thanksgiving to blog a little praise to the One whose goodness
became flesh. And as my heart has considered
the satisfying goodness of Jesus, this verse continues to resonate…
For the LORD God is a sun and
shield;
the LORD bestows favor and
honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11
This truth has been sweetness to my often-weary soul over
the past couple of years as we’ve walked a road many would perceive as a lack
of provision from our God. Praise the
Lord that scripture speaks a better truth over our lives. Our sun and shield has faithfully and
fearlessly been our provision and protection—even when His provision came in a
different form than we hoped. After all,
the One who purchased our salvation was for many an unexpected provision. And His goodness was seen in full through His
suffering. Good things come in
unexpected ways. And His goodness to us
is overwhelming.
So when I’ve been tempted to view these years of loss as an
absence of His goodness in our lives, I preach these truths to myself until I
believe them. It is against His very
nature to withhold goodness from His children.
And His goodness begins and ends with Jesus. What confidence knowing that we can trust the
One whose faithfulness rises with the sun to give us what He has ordained as
good—and that good is more than we can ask or imagine.
In this season of life and always, may our hearts say with
the Psalmist…
Preserve me, O God, for I take
refuge in You.
I said to
the LORD, “You are my Lord;
I have no
good besides You.”
Psalm 16:2
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