Ditto

I originally posted this on Highview's Adoption Blog, but it is so important that it bears repeating. Feel free to repost it on your own blog! I tried to keep it tame and I know you can't read emotion through the words on a blog...but this is really something that is convicting to me and lays heavy on my heart! It is so important that we trust God in every aspect of our lives, but how many of us really do when it comes to OUR money...

I am an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition fan. We all know the deal...a family in desperate need gets to go on a mega vacation while Ty & the gang builds them a brand new, over-the-top house to meet all their needs!!

This past Sunday's episode was about a family in Texas that had adopted four children with special needs from Kazakhstan, so of course I was extra interested in the story. Barely 5 minutes into their story, I wished I could have notified ALL of you to watch! Here was a financially struggling family, one who no one in their right mind would have called well off, who had laid aside their own needs and adopted FOUR children!!

We're off to Mineola, Texas to help another amazing family. Mike and Katrina Carr are loving parents to four adopted children who were abandoned in Kazakhstan. Two of the children, Ryanne and Rina, were born with Amniotic Band Syndrome which caused many physical challenges. And Mike has been plagued with diabetes since he was a child.

Mike and Katrina have battled through their challenges to provide a loving home for their children. However, over $50,000 in repairs is needed and Mike was recently laid off from his job. The Carrs need help and we know a team that will step up to the challenge.

And read more here...about the fundraiser they did that provided needs for their adoptions to the very penny! Praise the Lord!! What I want you to take away from their story is that money is not all that is needed to make adoption happen. Adoption is not cheap, but it breaks my heart to think that there are children all over the world that may never know the security of a forever family because so many of us are worried about our finances!

How is God wanting YOU to provide for the needs of an orphan NOW?? James 4 talks about our life as a vapor...we are not guaranteed tomorrow and neither are the millions of orphans of this world...

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, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21