He has Bid her Heart to Beat

Yes, the ticker at the top is correct, we have been waiting over a year! I would have thought we would be holding her by now instead of still waiting to see just a picture of her. God is amazing and I am learning more of His faithfulness and love through this process. There have been many days where I have felt hopeless and He has continually sent encouragement my way. Sometimes through friends who are in the same boat across the country, "random" people I meet at the park, or my bible study. I was so touched by what I read in Beth Moore's "Believing God"...

"Perhaps you are adopted, and although you know the mother who raised you, you don't know your biological mother. God certainly did and still does. God knew her intimately enough to choose her womb for the place where He would fearfully and wonderfully fashion you. God hid you in a blanket of soft tissue and bid your heart to beat. For many days He alone knew you existed. You were His secret. God's own skillful hands knit you together, His watchful eyes gazed upon you, and His wise counsel ordained each of your days because you squinted from the light of your first. Long before technology ordered the first sonogram, God watched you suck your thumb in your mother's womb. Amazing isn't it?"
Thanks God, even when I don't feel I am getting closer to her, I know I am getting closer to you and there is no better place on earth.