Beauty of Fall

Winston & I were riding home last week from dropping Grace off at school. I had the
sunroof open and a rain shower of leaves in yellow, orange & red fell all around us.
I just love fall. Winston turned from having his head out of the window smelling all the wonderful outdoor smells and there on his nose was a leaf. I wish so that I had not been driving....it would have been a great photo. I love that old dog so much. He is such a good friend to me.

So some big things have been happening here lately. The rough draft of the website front page and several other pages was sent to us last week and it is just beautiful.
I just love that the people behind getting this thing up & running understood who Anna was. It is very clear to see from the work they have done. The site has cheery Anna colors & just the design made tears come to my eyes. We are almost there. When that site is completed it will be "real". God has really moved mountains for us this last year. Only through Him could all of this be happening.
The other biggie is that we are not continuing with the Philippine adoption. On Oct. 26th the Philippines released new requirements for adoption and one aspect of these new requirements we just felt really uncomfortable with. Really it was just that they could change their requirements on the 26th and have them effective Nov. 1st no matter where you were in the process. We do not do well with that kind of up/down stuff. With China even if they made changes you are grandfathered under the old requirements if a change is made during the process. That I can handle....so with in
24 hours of deciding to withdraw we had a little one off a waiting child list be placed in our lap. I do not want to give specifics but it looks like we are heading to China.....at least that is the prayer. We have accepted the referral and are now waiting for pre-approval. We are hoping we hear by the end of the month. Once we hear I will post this little one's info....we are so excited at the possibility. Isn't that such a God thing? I am excited about going to China again....something that a year ago I thought was impossible. See through Him all is possible. Even the things we think we are not strong enough for. I love Jesus so much for making me so aware that my possibilities are endless through Him. He makes us go from...."I can't go back there"....to...."maybe we are supposed to go back to China".
What a ride! I plan on embracing every moment of this journey He has us on just like every moment of our ride through the leaves last week. Beauty of fall....His majesty!
God Bless,
Jo

Genesis 28:15
"And, behold, I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, "until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of".