Supply

And my God will supply all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:19)

This adoption has been so different on the financial side of things than Krassimir's was. We went into Krassi's knowing that we had nowhere near what we needed - for those of you who have been reading this blog for that long, you know that the ~$30,000 adoption was the small expenditure of that year. The big one was the large addition we put onto our house when Matt's mom decided she would live with us after her husband died. At the time, the total we needed for the adoption and the addition to the house was almost five times our yearly income.

That was an exciting ride - God used a great variety of different means to cover us, some of them obvious (gifts from people), some less so (when parts of the project were delayed by circumstances out of our control, thus giving us another month to save up a bit to pay for the next big chunk). Some were large and immediate, some were gradual (our yearly income, for example, is higher now than it was then.)

This time around, doing only an adoption, (oh, and finishing a bedroom in the basement, too!), didn't seem nearly as daunting, plus, there's nothing like having seen God provide what we needed when we needed it in the past to boost confidence that he can do it again. Still, we knew going into this adoption a year ago that the numbers still didn't all check out unless God intervened.

As we approach the end of the adoption process (which is, of course, just the beginning of life after the process!), we're seeing some more obvious ways that God is providing for our practical needs. I feel the need to post about this because I'm hoping somebody reading will be encouraged to not let fear of the unknown stop them from being obedient to whatever God is calling them (you??) to do.

Last Thursday morning we got to video message with Bogomila after the court hearing. What joy to see her happy smiling face. I am so looking forward to when she is more fluent in English and we can be a part of her great sense of humor without a translator in between! Less than three hours later the mail arrived with a unexpected check of a significant dollar amount from a person we know of, but do not know personally. The timing of this does not go un-noticed by us! It's very possible that the person sending the check was aware that Thursday was our court date, but regardless of that, I know God knew our court date AND the mail schedule for the week!

Today the mail brought another similar gift, and although the dollar amount is less than last week's, the number on the check doesn't matter so much because it's just simply another reminder that all of our needs will be supplied at just the right time.

This has nothing to do with the subject matter of this post, but a post with photos is always nice, right? Can you believe what Leah found halfway up our Christmas tree this afternoon? He sat there nicely through a few photos, and then obligingly jumped (almost) into the plastic container Matt brought to catch him in. Owen and Rinnah found him a new home...outside...and as far as we know we're back to our normal rodent-free living again.

We may have "Room for More" around here, but not, Little Mouse, for you. At least not in the house. You can make a home outside in the yard somewhere!