Spending time away from home and at the cabin this month has been wonderful. With Mari leaving for college in just two days, time with family is precious and fleeting. We have been blessed to laugh, pray and enjoy each other these last few weeks. What a complete blessing!
One big blessing during our family time was an unexpected email from our adoption agency with new pictures of Elsa!! She is never far from our minds as we go about our days. I will often hear one of the kids ponder out loud how she would like some activity we are all doing. In His time, we will know the answer to those questions. How sweet that will be!
For now we continue to wait for our LOA which could arrive anytime from mid September to the end of October. The typical wait is 60-90 days. We have waited a grand total of 30. Seems like a lot more! We continue to pray for her and work on the things we know we can do. The girls made Elsa's fleece blanket while we were at the cabin. While we were tying, it was fun to talk about about how life in the Lindquist house will change once Elsa comes home. We are all so excited! God is so good to allow us this privilege once again. When I get discouraged, I turn to His word and He tells me to wait for Him. When I grow weary of the wait, He tells me to hang on to His strength. This whole process is such a blessed, growing experience for me in the Lord.
"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has not might He increases strength. Even youth shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."
Isaiah 40:28-31
