Well, we’re STILL in Russia! In 6 more days, however, we will be HOME—church, family, friends, good food, drinks with lots of ice, and Braves baseball!
This past Friday (April 4) was “Gotcha Day!” In adoption language, this day is the day when you go and pick up your child to live with you—permanently! It’s been a long journey of faith for me and Carrie. And we realize that this new season of life is the beginning of another faith journey for us. By the way, initiation into this season of life has been a blast. I’m changing a lot of diapers, playing a lot in the floor, sleeping a lot less, and I’m loving every minute of it!
God is so good, so I should not be shocked that He has put this baby boy into our family. It just so happens that I ran across these verses as I was reading my Bible a few days ago:
This past Friday (April 4) was “Gotcha Day!” In adoption language, this day is the day when you go and pick up your child to live with you—permanently! It’s been a long journey of faith for me and Carrie. And we realize that this new season of life is the beginning of another faith journey for us. By the way, initiation into this season of life has been a blast. I’m changing a lot of diapers, playing a lot in the floor, sleeping a lot less, and I’m loving every minute of it!
God is so good, so I should not be shocked that He has put this baby boy into our family. It just so happens that I ran across these verses as I was reading my Bible a few days ago:
Father of the fatherless, defender of widows—this is God, whose dwelling is holy. God places the lonely in families; he sets the prisoners free and gives them joy (Psalm 68:5-6, NLT).
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So as I sit here in my quiet hotel room on this Monday afternoon in Russia, I watch my new baby and my loving bride take a nap, and I am overwhelmed at what God has done for me. And I say a little prayer: “God, thank you for being so good. Help me not to take your blessings for granted. God, I don’t want to let a day go by that I don’t stop long enough to acknowledge all that You’ve done for me.”
Wherever you are right now, whatever you’re doing right now, just take one minute to thank God for what He’s done for you. After you take a minute, then you can look at a few pictures from our first few days with our child…
Just moments after we first “got” him…
Wherever you are right now, whatever you’re doing right now, just take one minute to thank God for what He’s done for you. After you take a minute, then you can look at a few pictures from our first few days with our child…
Just moments after we first “got” him…
My first time to feed him (or any baby)…
Feeding him before he went to bed that first night with us…
The little man and his tired papa taking a little snooze…
A picture from today before we left for the Baskin Robbins in Tver, Russia…
A picture from today at Baskin Robbins…
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