STREAMS IN THE DESERT

Greetings Family & Friends,

This is just a little update...not much has changed as of yet. We are still counting on God to move our "Mountain" and bring Malachi home to us soon.

As I have said before, I do have mostly good days where I'm strong and ready to wait as long as it takes for him, and then there are the "ugly days" when all I want to do is cry because I just long to hold my little man in my arms. But then, I give it all back to Jesus and say...get me through this rough patch...and He always does. It just hurts my heart so much sometimes. But I guess we are human and He understands that and He continually supplies "Streams in my desert"! It definitely is just such a miracle of God the creator to place a love so deep in your heart for someone you have never even met yet. He may not be our "biological child" but as I have said before, he is our HEART BORN son and it's so neat to see God's plan unfolding....even if we are on a "slight detour"....! Let's just hope and pray it's not one of those "6 hr out of the way detours"! Ha ha ha...just teasing!

I wanted to share something with you that the Lord has been speaking to my heart lately. We sang a song in church a few weeks ago entitled...God will make a way...and it goes a little something like this.... "God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see, He will make a way...." and when I heard and sang that this is also what I heard him speak to my heart. He said, get ready, I'm about to move mountains on your behalf. He said, all I ask is that you have faith the size of a mustard seed (and if you've ever seen one you know just how small they are)...so all He is asking for is faith, hope and trust to which we have given all to him! His word and promises do NOT return void....so we will just wait and stand and believe that this is ALL part of His plan and that He knows what's best for timing and situations! We want to be in His "Perfect Will" for our lives and family!

We will truly rejoice when Malachi comes, it will be a celebration and feast for all to see! But above all God will get the glory because He has orchestrated this thing to perfection!

So PLEASE just continue to pray with AND for us as we continue on this journey and that God would begin opening doors and moving mountains just as He has promised! Remember...He IS a God of the impossible making ALL things possible!

With love,

Kevin & Marissa ( & Malachi)

A Steadfast Heart

Good Morning Family and Friends,

We first want to thank you all who have either emailed, called or spoke words of encouragement to us during our "storm". We truly are blessed to have you all! And we know that God is in ultimate control and is working on our behalf!

I do have to say it has been a very hard two weeks since we have found out the news. I will have "good days" and "sometimes bad days". But I know that God is SO faithful to carry me EVERY day in His hands! What a reassurance that is that we have HIM to lean on. I must say, I truly do not know what we would do without Jesus in our lives. He is the center of our family and our solid rock. If you don't know Him and want to have a personal relationship with him....just ask me how! It's EASY! ;-)

But Kevin and I have done some heart-to-heart talking through this all and we have come up with one definite decision....we will WAIT for Malachi from Rwanda. As we were chatting a bit last night, he IS our "heart" and even though he does not have a "face" yet, in our hearts he DOES...and if in the meantime the Lord would see fit to bless us with a child of our own, great, but otherwise, we will "patiently" (sometimes easier said than done) WAIT for our little Rwandan child. I was doing some exploring of other avenues and African countries these past few weeks and every time I would look into it my heart would just "ache"....and as we were talking last night it definitely showed us that our "heart" is in Rwanda and we will be steadfast and wait....

But with waiting comes anxiousness...and that is where we are going to need YOU our friends and family to help us continue to lift our hands in prayer through this....you are all so near and dear to us and we know you will ALL rejoice with us when we finally bring Malachi home!!! But until then....we will continue to be steadfast and wait on the Lord!!!

Much love and prayers for all of you!

Marissa & Kevin