Court Monday

Days have been really good over here lately. Life is really settling in. K-man continues to surprise us with his sense of security in going to child care several times a week. We also continue to stand amazed at his hunger in learning about God. He has been diligently praying for a few people in our church - one who has a hurt foot and one who had a cast on her hand. The other day, the lady with the cast on her hand no longer had the cast. I told K-man that God had healed her hand and she didn't need the cast any longer. He looked at me with WIDE eyes..."God healed her hand?!?! How he did that?!" Still, he runs to her in order to look at her hand and stand amazed, trying to take in the mystery of how God healed her.

B-boy has been doing great...until yesterday when he came down with a pretty bad cold and our first fever! Can you believe we've been doing this for about 10 months now, and this is our first child with a fever?? I guess we should count our blessings, but you Mommas know how hard it is to be house-bound with a sick child. Please pray that this doesn't turn into bronchiolitis, which he had when he came to us. If it did, it could last 3-6 weeks, and I just don't even know what I would do. (but God does...I need to remind myself of that.) The good news is that this has given me some additional help in attachment with B-boy. It's still not quite there, but nurturing him while he's been sick has helped a bit.

And now to our primary need for prayer...the boys have their first adjudication hearing on Monday morning at 9am. Basically, this is a court hearing which will determine whether the boys will stay with us a little while longer or be returned home.  This is a huge day for all of us. Please pray that the Lord would grant each of us peace and that he would grant wisdom to the judge. Specifically, we are praying that the boys will stay with us for now and that we will continue to see spiritual fruit in K-man's life. We, of course, pray also that the Lord would be mightily at work in their mother's life. We are just praying for more time. If that is not in the Lord's will, Monday will be a very difficult day. My husband and I are not going to be able to go to court with them as we typically do, due to work conflicts. If the boys go home, we will have no opportunity to hug and kiss them goodbye, explain to K-man what is happening, nor try to send them off with any kind of lasting blessing like a letter, Bible, written prayer, photographs, etc...(important for us, but mostly for them). Pray that the Lord will minister to their hearts regardless of how the situation goes, and pray that we are able to rest in His sovereignty.

I will post an update as soon as I am able on Monday. Thank you for walking through this with us!