Through the Valley

"Attacked by Satan? Of course he attacked! Adoption IS Grace in action, and God has used you to undo the consequences of sin and evil. When you risk a rescue from behind enemy lines, you should expect the enemy to retaliate. Jesus Himself wasn't immune from that effect. They hated Him first." A quote by one of our friends today that adequately describes our day.

I can't give details on my blog. But I will say we have been severely attacked by the Enemy. But our God showed up! He was hear, He was present, He was near! And that feeling, my friends, is calming, and truly amazing. God really can use anyone - even a child to do His bidding. Wow! Our God is bigger than our Enemy.

Trying to remember that - no matter how the events of this day play out in our future. We have a lot of decisions to make throughout the next few days. We love our precious boys and we have their safety to think about. We also have our own sanity to consider. Days like today are not possible to endure more than a few times in your life.

We have so much support around us. Thank you so much for the prayers given on our behalf sometimes when people didn't even know our situation. Our whole family - my husband, myself, and definitely our kids walked through the valley today. You think I am joking, but unfortunately, I am totally being truthful. I definitely do not understand how people who don't know our God make it through these scary encounters without Him. Seeing Him work humbles me. Thanking Him for His grace in our lives. Jesus wasn't surprised by our day, and He held us through it.

Adoption and foster care come with severe risks - none that you can't get through. But the decisions involve whether our boys deal with intense scrutiny or they live normal baby boy lives. It involves whether we continue to adopt or foster even. This is the largest mountain we have yet to encounter. We want to make sure that our God is first in our lives - and that we are not serving two masters. God's laws over man's laws. Not a hard choice but could have hard consequences when they come head to head.