Wednesday, June 5, 2013

                                                            Our handsome boys!!!

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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