We Meet Maria Li on August 23rd!!!

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no-one can fathom.  He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.  Isaiah 40:28-29


Well,  I'll have to admit there were many times over the past 3.5 years that I did grow weak and weary, but God has sustained us and we can see the end to this journey. (You can read our journey by clicking the link to the left.)  I wish I just would have known in 2007 that it would take 3.5 years, but we'd have a beautiful 2.5 year old daughter.  There were many times that I didn't think it would happen.  There are definitely some upsides to this long wait.  We've gotten stronger in our faith, we've made some wonderful friends and I've changed my perspective.  At first I just wanted to adopt because I selfishly wanted a girl.  Now, I've become less selfish and really want to adopt because these children need parents.  After looking at all the children on the waiting list, I just knew this was the path for us.


We will leave for Hong Kong on August 19th.  We don't actually get there until August 21.  We'll fly to her province and meet her at 2:00pm on August 23rd.  (That's going to be a long morning waiting for her.)  Then she'll be with us!!!    We'll still have paperwork to do for a couple weeks.  We fly home on Sept 4th.  Wow!  It actually is hard to believe that we're leaving so soon.


Here's another picture of her.  She's looking at her pictures from her 2nd birthday party.

Trisha