Life is beautiful
“Look what my daddy did for me, look what he gave me!” The
last words of the movie “Life is Beautiful” made me stop and think one more
time of how precious the gift of life is. So often we are so busy that we don’t
have time to stop and thank our Heavenly Daddy for His precious gift to us.
Life is very precious and not only mine and yours but every
life. It’s why God did everything from His side that we would have an eternal
life. But what can we do in return? First of all we should appreciate His gift
to us. We must spend our life in a way that brings glory to the One who gave it
to us.
This month had its ups and downs for us. There were times we
saw God working and being on our side and yet other times it seemed like God
just watched from far away. But now when we look back we see how God was
teaching us to lean on Him and stand firm on His promises.
One big thing was when Steven was working on the documents
for Tyomka. In the beginning it looked very easy and we thought that in the beginning
of the summer we should have our big boy home but there were many “little
thing” popping up in the process. One “little thing” was that the social
workers wanted Steven to do the documents as if Tyomka was his nephew. To say
it straight, they wanted him to lie because it was easier for them. After
Steven said that he cannot do God’s work using the worldly methods they decided
to make things look so complicated that Steven would agree. He came home and we
prayed. We knew that God was on our side and that meant that victory was ours.
We waited a few days and than got a call saying that if we don’t do something
fast Tyomka will be adopted by some foreigners. Steven went to the office again
standing firm on God’s promises. Well, to make story short, they saw that they
cannot break him and accepted the documents. But it is not the end yet, some
other thing needs to be done, so please pray for us.
It is hard to wait when you don’t know how long. But as we
are waiting for Tyamka to come home, we are preparing his room and It’s almost
ready.
Timka is growing fast. He keeps all of us busy and
entertained. I spend lots of time training him and being there when he needs
me. He loves to go fishing with his daddy and I was so surprised when I saw him
standing with his fishing pole for 30 minutes!!! One thing I can say that you
cannot become a fisherman you have to be born one. I see how rewarding it is to
spend time with you child. Another day we were having lunch when Timka ran to
his daddy hugged him and said: “daddy you are my best friend!” Yeah, it made
daddy’s day!!!
Right now we are preparing for the summer’s camps and VBSs. Praise
God we have a good group of youth from our church that wants to help us. We
want God to use us for His glory.
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