Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes. - Somewhere in Ezra, the Old Testament
I actually got around to reading my Bible yesterday. I get these e-mails with excerpts of the Bible sent to me. I was reading Ezra. So the story goes that the Jewish people had once again be exiled from their home land. But then Ezra, a prophet of God, shows up and King Artaxerxes, allows the Jews to return to the temple and rebuild it. He even gives them money for the job and send out this proclamation that its illegal for the temple workers to be taxed, and Ezra gets to make the rules. So Ezra says:
Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD which is in Jerusalem, and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counselors, and before all the king's mighty princes.
So I pray, "Wow God, you can move the heart of a King to show mercy and favor to a Nation, certainly you can make Baby's social worker favorable inclined towards us. Please make Baby's worker show mercy when she visits this afternoon, and please don't let Bub say anything rude or inappropriate. "
Guess what? The worker said that, if all goes as she expects that Termination of Parental Rights can happen mid November. This a huge step towards adoption. She also said if at the next court date plays out as expected she will create a permanency plan for adoption by a non-relative (aka- US). Yeah! This means if all goes as planned (and that is a BIG "if) the adoption could be finalized in February - before baby is even 1 year old. And that is almost unheard of.
So, pray with us on September 5th that court will goes as the worker expects and that baby will be ours sooner than later. We'll throw a party!
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