Tonight I sent an update to a woman who monitors the website for Cori's orphanage. This lady paid for Cori to go into foster care more than two years ago. She recently revisited the orphanage. Through this woman we saw pictures and updates of our daughter that our agency had never seen. This was like the normal ultrasound we western women can count on. These were the pictures and reports that sustained our weary hearts!
Her family is the reason Cori feels she is the center of the universe, while completely recognizing that there is structure and authority there. Bless Bonnie, dearest Father God.
Cori laughed all day long. She wore herself out on joy!!!!
It was an enormous effort for her to fall asleep...but she would not do so without a New Testament given to Lily during Vacation Bible School
Lily told me tonight that she had been baptized, but her language delays came into play. She is completely over the top about that part of the gospel of Jesus. This week this child quoted to me all of John 3:16.
Can there ever be a more profound in the life of a believer than when a child who would Never HAVE HEARD ABOUT JESUS WANTS TO BE baptized? When she can say John 3:16 with cleft lip, cleft palate? From a heathen nation?
My grandmother asked me why we adopted from China when so many are available from the US.I said that the US rejected us. Not a single adopted child of our family has one dollar bill for college, but the "natural born children" have college funds. Only one member of our natural born family has helped on this journey. Wes' mom bought her these gorgeous princess gowns and paid for Grace's airfare.
Not one woman in this nation would have chosen us. But sincerely desperate women with not a single option took the children their reject.
They now lie in our in our arms. God in Heaven, Romans makes so much more sense now.
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