The Journey of a Family Striving to Live Dangerously Surrendered!


"Surrendering means that we have come to the end of our independence from him, our reliance on self-sufficiency, and our insistence that we don’t need him. Surrender to God changes everything! Why add the word dangerous to surrender? Because we don’t surrender to a benevolent but impotent grandfatherly figure; we surrender to Almighty God —the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. C. S. Lewis’s character Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia depicts God as a magnificent lion —good, but certainly not safe. Surrendering your life to God is the boldest and riskiest step you can take. Being dangerously surrendered to God allows you to know him in increasingly deeper ways and to participate fully in his will. " ~Kay Warren

Monday, October 13, 2008

More Delays

We are a bit frustrated as we were told of our children's court dates today. Joshua's court date is now October 31st and Julianna's not until November 25th. This is very disappointing as we were hoping to get her court date the same date as his. This pushes back travel to at least December 26th. That would be only if both court dates go through the first time...which would be a miracle. We could very well have to wait until January. We are so heart broken for Joshua, having to wait so long, but are just holding on. As a dear friend of mine in this adoption world told me...it's time to PUSH..just as the end of labor requires pushing, this time at the end of the adoption process requires mental and emotional and spiritual pushing. We feel weary, but felt the prayers and support of many today that gave us the extra energy we need to keep pushing, keep interceding for our children, and pushing through in spiritual warfare to get our children home.

Thank you for praying for these court dates and for our adoption service on October 25th.

Blessings,
Kurt and JoLynn
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1 comment:

Thankfulmom said...

It has been a long wait. Not too much longer - Lord willing you'll sail through court.

Lisa

October 18, 2008 at 9:58 PM

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