Scribble Scrabbles

The "Paper Chase" begins.  We are now in the process of getting all our paperwork together.  We are using an agency called "Life Line Adoption" and they have agreed to go ahead and start our home study even though we haven't moved.  They will save the house inspection for the very end.  So, we have a few short months to find a 3 bedroom place.  Our goal is for our rent to stay reasonably close to what we pay now.  So, this will need prayer. :} However, the Lord never ceases to amaze me and I am confident it will be yet another amazing testimony of His incredible provision.  So, if you want specifics....  We are looking for a 3 bedroom house, with at least a little yard (I want a few chickens and maybe a goat) -might I add a very quiet goat.  We want the rent to be $700 or less.
An update on our puzzle, we have sold 550 pieces so far.  I am so excited to see the back when we get it all finished.  All those names.  The Lord has really been speaking to me lately through this whole idea of a puzzle and the individual pieces.  A piece by itself seems so insignificant, in fact if I were to find just one piece of a puzzle I would discard it into my trash can perhaps.  However, when all those individual, insignificant pieces form together, then their purpose is revealed.  Only when they are all connected and joined together can the intended image be seen.  Wow, what an example of the church!  Only when we as individual, insignificant parts join together can the image of Christ be seen.  World hunger, orphans, widows, child slavery, poverty, disease, complacent religion and the list goes on and on.... well it is overwhelming.  Completely overwhelming when I look at it as an individual.  My best contribution will seem like nothing in comparison to the hurt that I will not personally be able to touch.  When the community of believers, a living, breathing, body of Christ followers work together....the world will be changed.  The hopeless will be given a hope.  And in our story an orphan will be given a home. 
It is also so beautiful to see the Lord working in the hearts of our children.  They are daily thinking of ways that they can personally raise money to bring home their sibling.  Gabriella wants to have a concert and sell the tickets.  Ysa well she told me yesterday that she thinks she has a gift.  She is really good at making scribble scrabbles and she wants to scribble her art and sell it to people for our adoption.  That is just a few of their ideas.  I know it makes the Lord smile to hear them just want to do and give.  They have volunteered to sell their stuff, oh they have a plethora of ideas. :}  They already love this child.