Please join me...

an excerpt from an email I sent to my friend...

I have decided rather than question.... question how Bethany "matches," rather than question the politics (if any,) and rather than question the time, I have decided to just continue to PRAY!  I am praying for so many things I almost feel guilty... so I am trying to remember for every 'needing' prayer, I offer a pray of Thanksgiving because the Lord has blessed me with so many AMAZING things in my life!  With that said... I am asking you to please pray with me for strength, faith, and honesty.  Strength that my family and I can continue the journey; wait with positivity and excitement rather than with frustrations.  Faith, praying that our faith continues to grow as we live for the unknown, and lastly, for the honesty of Bethany.  Pray with us that Bethany will use their best Christian judgements when reviewing the orphans and the families patiently await their 'call.'

I have asked her.....and now I ask all of you, please pray with us.  Praying is the only thing we can control at the moment~

My Daily Prayer until our 'call'

Lord, teach me to be patient - with life, with people,and with myself. I sometimes try to hurry things along too much, and I push for answers before the time is right. Teach me to trust Your sense of timing rather than my ownand to surrender my will to Your greater and wiser plan. Help me let life unfold slowly, like the small rosebud whose petals unravel bit by bit, and remind me that in hurrying the bloom along, I destroy the bud and much of the beauty therein.

Instead, let me wait for all to unfold in its own time. Each moment and state of growth contains a loveliness. Teach me to slow down enough to appreciate life and all it holds. 

Amen.

Feast of St. Francis of Assisi

Prayer of St. Frances of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen