Believing

As we continue to wait on our notarized home study to send to immigration, I am having to remind myself of God's faithfulness and goodness.  In December when I was struggling because things weren't working out with the adoption, (This is another story for another blog post, but long story short...adoption was not going to happen from Liberia) I prayed and struggled and prayed and struggled and then God gave me this verse:
Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished. Luke 1:45 So this adoption is not happening in my timing or the way that I envisioned it, and yet I will believe that God will accomplish it.  He is faithful! I was looking back in my journal where I wrote these verses from Lamentations 3:
 The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.
 I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed.
 Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:

 The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue,
  Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.
  The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.

 The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him,
 So it is best for us to wait in patience—to wait for him to save us—

This is my reminder that I trust Him...that He is good...that I will wait in patience...that He is all I have, so in Him will I hope.