God's Timing... perfect every time

Today during my quiet time I sat thinking about our situation, wondering when our LOA (letter of acceptance) would come. When would we finally get to go to China and meet our precious son? So many well intentioned friends have reminded me that God’s timing is always best. I know that is true, but waiting is still hard. I’m so glad that I know the King of Kings, and that he loves my son more than I do.

That being said, I began to do a bit of sulking. I looked at my calendar and counted the days, 80 days and counting sense our documents were logged into the CCAA in China… Once again I calculated the “what ifs”… if we get LOA today, we might get TA in a few weeks and be in China by the end of August… Maybe by my 40th birthday, Aug 21? Probably not, because of the Olympics. What if China doesn't hurry up?... What if… I have a schedule China, don't you understand?

It was at this "feeling sorry for my doubtful self" point that I sat with my Bible and God directed me to this verse... a promise if you will! And this is what I read:

"For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment and will not disappoint; if it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late." Habakkuk2:3

Wow . . . it will not be late, hmmmm . . . I looked it up in the Message Bible:

And then God answered: "Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision-message is a witness pointing to what's coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn't lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It's on its way. It will come right on time. Habakkuk 2:3

Does God have me figured out or what? He knows exactly what I need, right when I need it. Thank you Lord!

You won’t believe what happened next. The cell phone rang. Guess what? It was Denise (at Dillon, our adoption agency) calling and she has our LOA in hand, EXACTLY ON TIME.

I happen to be in Tulsa this week for Dillon’s China Heritage camp with Cosette so I can sign the LOA today, FedEX it to John at home so he can sign it tomorrow and FedEx it back to Dillon for Monday delivery. GOD’S TIMING IS PERFECT.

Another very exciting development: Usually on adoption trips to China there is a group of adoptive families traveling together. This helps spread the expense of the translators, taxi’s etc. while in country. Because Daniel is older and we are an “expedited” adoption we were told we would not have a travel group, that our family would probably travel alone. We understand that if we travel alone we can expect our in China costs to almost double. Well, because of GOD’s TIMING, there is a group of Dillon families who we could travel with! They are adopting babies, and will be going to another Provence, but simply being in a “group” will lower our expenses!

Our next step will be to receive Travel Approval (TA) from China. We expect this to come in about 30 days. Travel is usually a few weeks after TA.

We still don't have all the money needed for this journey. We are trusting once again that God will provide exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

God is GOOD! ALL the time.

Blessings,
~ Tonya