A little TLC for Tahlia! (also, prayer request)

We used Ann at Redthread to send a care package to our baby girl, and today Ann got back to me with a pic of the package that will be delivered in the next few days!!!
I can’t wait to get the disposable camera back with pics on it!!!

And friends, and family, we NEED YOUR PRAYER HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

If we don’t get our LOA this week or next, we lose all chances of getting Tahlia before the new year. Now, normally this would NOT be such a huge deal, except for the INTENSE desire to be with our baby girl! But, at the end of this year the tax credit for 13,200 expires. So, we lose the chance of getting help from the government to fund the adoption, which costs over 30,000. In 2012, it’s 12,000 and nonrefundable. Meaning you actually have to have 12,000 tax liability in that year in order to get the lump sum that year. This is not likely.

So, where does this put us??? Once again, COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON OUR HEAVENLY FATHER TO MAKE THIS ADOPTION POSSIBLE!!! That has been the theme of this adoption. God doesn’t want us in a place where we say, “we can do this, it’s all good, its easy!” No, because that would not build faith, or allow us to be dependent on our Lord….and we would not be growing in our relationship with HIM. He wants us to need Him, otherwise He would NOT get the glory. When Brian got the vision from the Lord that we should adopt, he was WITHOUT a job!!! We didn’t doubt then, and we don’t doubt now that GOD IS ABLE!

Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!”
(Luke 1:45)

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. (Rom. 8:28)

And, if we don’t get our LOA in time to travel in 2011…so be it!! I fully trust the Lord, that He knows what He is doing! What is most important to us, is that we get our baby girl! The sooner, the better. And, I am going to pray like crazy its sooner!! Well, because the Lord chooses to work through prayers!!

And, you know what….God is bigger than money, or lack there of!!! He can make it happen. And, our children, all 5 of them, are worth more than anyone can put a price tag on. Whatever oceans we have to cross, whatever mountains we need to climb, and whatever fires we need to crawl through.,…we WILL get to our daughter, the one who the Lord has blessed us with!

But, prayer is KEY!! Please partner with us, dear friends and family…..we need your help!!!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. (Eph 3:20-21)