Thanks to all of
you who follow this blog and who have contributed to our journey of bringing
Esther home through finances, prayer and friendship. It takes a community to
adopt a child and I am proud to say that the community that surrounds our
family is amazing and spreads all across the nation! I don’t always have something to report but
we did get a recent update about Esther.
Esther will be 2
in a month and she doesn’t walk yet and struggles with balance. We also just
found out that they think she has a hearing loss. She does not respond to sound (even clapping
right by her ear). This is hard news to
take when you are a mom and a thousand miles away and can’t do anything to
help. The feeling of helplessness could
take over but I have chosen to trust God through this process. That being said,
this update is a part of the
process. I know that He is still in the
business of miracles so I am praying for healing and a miracle for Esther if
that is what God chooses.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today
and forever” Hebrews 13:8. He heals today. His miracles confirm His deity,
omnipotence, and faithfulness to His promises. We preach the biblical truth of
His healing power, even though divine power does not respond immediately to
every human plea and desire. Though His ways are beyond our understanding
(Romans 11:33), we trust His decisions in response to all our prayers.
The New
Testament records many miracles and healings wrought by Jesus. Yet not every
disease and infirmity in His immediate proximity was removed. Scripture records
that upon returning to His hometown, “he did not do many miracles there because
of their lack of faith” Matthew 13:58. In John 5, Jesus healed only one of many
gathered at the pool of Bethesda for a superstitious expectation of physical
healing. So if prayer for healing is not immediately answered, we do not change
our theology to say God no longer heals. We continue to trust Him in
anticipation of the day when the infirmities of earthly existence drop away in
the perfect light of His eternal presence.
All of that
being said there was good news with our update! Esther is in the “passport
phase” of our process and we see a clear light at the end of the tunnel.
Her Haitian
passport will be paid for this week and then paperwork will go the US Embassy
to process her Visa and then we get to pick her up! If you asked me a time
frame I would say we should go to Haiti in mid-February(even though I have been
told sooner). That would be my perfect birthday present!
Please continue
to pray for Esther, for the orphanage and the other children and their adoptive
families, for the workers that serve there and for your part in our
journey. We still are raising funds for
our second round of travel so if you want o donate you can do so via the paypal
button on the right. If you want to know
other ways you can support adoptive families message me or visit my
organizations website www.embracetexas.org
I will leave you
with my funny quote of the day:
Parker: Mom I
think Daddy and I will need to go to Haiti and pick up Esther and bring her
home this week. You can’t go it’s just for me and Daddy to go for you but we
should learn how to say snowman, thunder and lizard in that funny language
that’s not Spanish!
Blessings,
Tiffany
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