Ordering our steps

I have so many things running through my head right now. I have started at least three posts and have yet to post anything. My mind is a whirlwind of thoughts and they are all jumbled together. Things that God has put on my heart, things that God is doing, a desire so deep that it won't leave me and almost hurts. I am at step A and want to jump on over to step Z to the "bigger" more "important" things instead of going through steps B through Y to get to those. All the while knowing that every step is important to the call God has on mine and my family's life. It's all preparation for the next step. What He has started will be completed if I will slow down. All I know is there are 1.2 million children who will be taken and placed into the s*x trade alone this year and many of those will be orphans. I know there are 147 million orphans in the world and that number may be growing. There are orphans who are living in conditions that do not allow them to thrive and become all that they can be. There are families in this world who want to take them home to be in their families, just as God has chosen us to be in His. The cost is high for adoption, too high - monetarily that is. The joys of those children being brought into a family is PRICELESS. Bringing children home to their forever families shouldn't cost what it does. When I look at the ransom that was paid for me by Jesus, so that I could be chosen, brought in, loved on by the King, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the ONE who is my banner and goes before me and with me wherever I am - that was too much. But to Him it was necessary and PRICELESS. Just as families who are adopting will sacrifice much in order to bring home thier children. Amazing faith and God's heart- overwhelming to this girl.

I'm not sure how to get my thoughts in order about all I want to say, but I will. I'm not sure how I will organize myself, my family, my desires - God's desires so that He can move mountains He will show me. At some point He may allow us the privelegde of helping to move that mountain and when God does we will trust Him to show us the path to take. Seeking His face on what to do next.

Seeing the World through His eyes breaks your heart - I know mine is breaking daily!!

Laurie