Only in the plan of God can such a thing happen.
So many families that traveled with us left China with their hearts broken. They had sacrificed so much and traveled so far only to have their children reject them! Some moms had birthed children in their hearts and then convinced daddies to go on such a risky journey only to have Dad be the only parent who was tolerated by the child.
I know from this last trip how deeply painful that can be. Cori only wanted Dad this Sunday, but I wanted her too! How appropriate to have a message that cut to the heart of our selfish expectations. God did not ask me if I would like Cori loving her dad more than me. He just told us to go get her.
Well, the times when she calls out my name and grabs me by the legs are all the more precious now because she has so many choices for those who will love her.
Special memories of this first weekend....She gets so sick in a vehicle that she desperately holds onto the nearest hand to help her. On Saturday night that was Katherine. Sunday it was Chinese sister, Jena. And when we went to AMP to get Lily, Cori ran into her arms.
This is SUPER natural God business we are talking about!!
She was very busy when I kept her in my wonderful Wednesday Bible study today. I am not sure how long that can last, so I took her to the class she will eventually attend afterwards. She TOTALLY followed only one child, that of my dear friend, a woman who prayed for Cori many times in the middle of the night. Not a single other child interested her except this child.
I have had a serious fear every time we have adopted. I may have posted this before and I apologize if it is a repeat, but it is a serious thing to adopt. You must know that you know that you know. And what a PRECIOUS GOD to tell us over and over that we DID hear His voice correctly about Cori!
For the women who have rushed to put their arms around me since my return........You are all God's hands and feet....Angela, Lori, Brundi, Renae, Amy, Carrie, Tina, Jill, Julie, Leslie, Kim, Leah, Angie, Pam, Stephanie, and surely I am forgetting too many. Please forgive my seriously still jet lagged old woman brain!!! And those who were so faithful online...Susan, Shelia, Sue, Jessica, Katherine, Christi, Conroy, Larry, Kelly, Laura, Krista, Robyn and Jay, Sandi, Susan.
Many have asked me to continue to write. I will try to follow God's lead. When I was a flute player for my praise and worship team there were Sundays when people told me I had ministered to them, but it was never me. I was not playing, it was the Holy Spirit. As I told Lori today, I was not typing. The keys just flowed from God. I am very thankful to have been used for a time for HIS glory. If He wants it to continue I will try my best to follow that lead.
I was so blessed by the words of Steve Farrar, author of Point Man this Sunday. It was a big repeat of last year's entire focus from Lori Frank in Poeima. We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which He has created beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10. And Steve made it clear that we are here on this earth until those works are accomplished.
But if tonight is any indication, when Cori fell off of a bed, would not eat dinner, re-wounded her knee, screamed over a puppy near by, had to have her dad in bed to sleep, and followed my every single step for two hours..........maybe my ministry must now be closer to home!
And wasn't a forever home for Jiang Yi Hua, now Corin Malia Wright, the purpose all along?
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