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This morning, I set out to read a Psalm, as I usually do, to start the day. But this morning's Psalm kept stopping me and speaking to me of God's heart for adoption. Here are some of the verses that struck me from Psalm 68 (I have named it the Adoption Psalm): 68:4-5 Sing to God, sing praises to His name... A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation. 68:6 God sets the solitary in families; He brings out those who are bound into prosperity. 68:10 You, O God, provided from Your goodness for the poor. 68:20 Our God is the God of salvation; and to God the Lord belong escapes from death. I was deeply blessed at the reminder that even though I cannot take care of our child right now, our child is not forgotten or alone. Our God, the Father to the fatherless, is with our child. He waits for His timing, when He will set the solitary (or child!) in his or her family (ours!). As if that were not enough of an encouragement to continue trusting Him...

It happened again. Early this morning, I dreamed that we were notified that we had our referral for our new child. In the dream, we went to Ethiopia to pick our new daughter up. We were welcomed by our little girl, whose name was Clara. She had misshaped hands, but a beautiful spirit. She was even old enough to talk, and told us what some words were in Amharic. She told us the word for scarf was "tic". Boy, am I going to be surprised if we get a boy!

As you know, I am a person who likes to get things done. Leaving things undone is excruciating to me. I don't start a project unless I know I can finish it. Sometimes that means I just won't start things that need to be started, because of the fear of leaving them unfinished. Well, I have started something. And no matter how I try, I cannot bring myself to finish it. It has been on my "to do" list for weeks, and I cannot motivate myself to make any progress on it. If you have been following my blog, you might have guessed what it is. A few months ago, I was updating the blog with the progress of our new kid's room. There are pictures of Scott and my father-in-law wainscoting the room beautifully. You may have noticed that I have never put up the "before" and "after" pictures. That is because there is no "after" yet. The room is still waiting for paint retouching, and pictures on the walls, and finished bedding, and junk remo...

Thursday evening was a big deal at our house. Our "baby" rode her bike around the block (and it is no small block!). Previously, she's mostly just ridden on our back patio, for a couple of minutes at a time. But when her neighbor friend (who is two years older) started riding her newly-training-wheel-free bike in our cul-de-sac, we decided to let Adrianna give her bike a try in the big, wide world. She did so well, that we figured she might like a real bike adventure. After making it safely back to our street, she loved the feeling of freedom, and wanted to ride more in our cul-de-sac. We allowed her to, but we soon had to drag her inside. Her legs were so tired, she could barely petal, but she didn't want to quit! I had another dream about our new child last night. (I guess just in time for Father's Day, since my last one was at Mother's Day!) In my dream, our child was a girl again. When people were talking to me about her in the dream, I told them,...