Manna. More than enough

Our beautiful Emma Kate

sparkly and beautiful girl!

Stacy, Paul and Solomon gave us the most amazing of gifts.  The photos are from a special part of their visit to their sweet son's orphanage.  While there, they took precious time out of their own experience to see, meet and spend time with Emma Kate.  

Stacy wrote to us about Emma.  These are words to treasure for us.  I feel like Mary, pondering these things in my heart!  Here is what Stacy and Paul say:

We had the awesome, beautiful privilege of meeting your beautiful girl!!!!  She is wonderful mama...absolutely wonderful!!!  It was nap time but they called her out of bed for us to meet her.  She came running out with a huge smile!!  The nannies and teachers said she is a very good girl...that she is very sweet and calm.  We told them that her new name will be Emma and they LOVE it!!!  She loved hearing that she had brothers and a sister.  They were telling her that you were coming very soon and that you love her and she was ALL SMILES!!!!!!!!! She knows you guys are coming and that made her sooooo happy!!!

Manna.  Surely more than enough.  Quite possibly more than my heart can hold.  

Knowing that she KNOWS, is such comfort.  Evidence of God's abundant provision for Emma and for us.  His ways really are perfect and true.  He has MORE than answered the cry of our hearts.  I am having a hard time conceiving of all that this means for Emma as she awaits us. Seeing her friend, Solomon, with his family, and learning what it means when a Mom and Dad come and are united with you.  Seeing Solomon so firmly attached to his Mom and Dad, Stacy and Paul, and learning how love does indeed take you in.  Solomon, Stacy writes in her blog, was very clear about going with them, not staying in the orphanage.  That, after only four days with them!  

I have to believe that for Emma to have time knowing we are coming soon, and readying her heart for that, is huge for her.   I know she is only five, but the gift of knowing and not being taken by surprise is such a blessing.  

YuXiao, our Little Jade, knows her name has grown.  She is also, and will also be, Emma.  This is profound for her to know this information already.  And to know that her caregivers are pleased with it, and will pass along their pleasure to her, is amazing.  Another piece of God's abundant provision and lovingkindness for His child.  Another way she can already begin to bond with us, even from afar.  Her heart tendered toward a family that already knows, loves and treasures her.

The adoption road is so marvelous.  Filled again and again with mighty works of God.  I really believe He delights in delighting us; and He gets to show off in the most beautiful ways through adoption.  Adoption is a  picture of what believers all experience when they come to Him.  We all are orphans.  And God calls us home.  To Him.  He Himself refers to what happens spiritually when we are adopted as heirs to the promise.  I am adopted, by the King.  I am a daughter of the Lord Most High.  I belong, because He says so.  I belong because Jesus was and is worthy.  Worth enough.  Blessed be His name.  Blessed be His name in all the earth.

Oh, Emma.  Our dear, sweet YuXiao.  How we long to meet you, to hold you in our arms, to sing over you and dance as on a day of festival.  How we are filled with awe and wonder by you.  Our hearts are full of such deep love.  We are mighty for you, and the Lord is mighty for you!  And we delight in you, just as He does so perfectly.  You are a treasure.  We would walk 5,000 miles to come to your door.  We will cross seas, complete reams of paperwork, wait endlessly, and persevere in the promise of you!  Soon, so very soon, we will see the Lord complete His promise to us.  Soon, so soon, we will all be together.  

The Lord is our strength AND our song.   Our provider.  And He puts the lonely in families.  How lonely our lives would be without you here amongst us.  Why?  Because WE belong together.

We belong together.

And we simply adore and love you.

From here to China and back again.

From here to anywhere you are.

We really are counting the days, Emma YuXiao.

Love forever and always, dear one,

Momma and Daddy