Court date in a matter of hours...

Sorry I haven't posted in awhile :).

While we were vacationing in Cannon Beach, OR, I received a phone call from our case worker with CHI. We had been playing at the beach and I left my phone in the hotel room. I checked my voicemail and heard something like this: "Hi Kelsey, this is Mike calling. I have very good news for you- you have a court date. Call me when you can." I freaked out. Called back right away- but it was 10 minutes after the agency closed for the night! The next morning I called literally two minutes after they opened and got Mike on the phone :). His news brought me to tears, right in front of the Cannon Beach Bakery where my kiddos were enjoying a maple bar while Daddy was in rehearsal. Our court date was scheduled for August 20th. Whoo-hoo!

Fast forward to right now. August 19th (which just so happens to be little man's 19 month birthday), 8:41 pm Seattle time, 6:41 am Ethiopia time. Which means our case will be heard sometime while we are sleeping (yeah right) tonight. We are hoping our agency will be able to let us know the results sometime on the 20th- but at least by the 21st.

It has been a rough 11 days, as my dad was called home to be with the Lord a week ago Saturday. To be quite honest, my walk with God has been sporadic as I have processed all of this... I have been praying, but have not opened the Word in two weeks. Tonight, as I sat in the office listening to some music and praying over the court case, I was convicted that I needed to be feasting on His Word. I opened my Daily Bible to August 19th. Thank you Lord, for how You ministered to me and met me in my depeest of needs through Your Word. Here is an excerpt of what He gave to me-

Job 5:8-18 (English Standard Version)

⁸"As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,
⁹who^A)">(A) does great things and^B)">(B) unsearchable,
^C)">(C) marvelous things without number:
¹⁰he gives^D)">(D) rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;
¹¹he^E)">(E) sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
¹²He^F)">(F) frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.
¹³He^G)">(G) catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime
and^H)">(H) grope at noonday as in the night.
¹⁵But he^I)">(I) saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.
¹⁶So the poor have hope,
and^J)">(J) injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁷"Behold,^K)">(K) blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore^L)">(L) despise not the discipline of the^M)">(M) Almighty.
¹⁸For he wounds, but he^N)">(N) binds up;
he^O)">(O) shatters, but his hands heal.

Promise to update soon...