Every Mountain He Has Moved

We got an email last week informing us that our travel dates could potentially be pushed back a week to three weeks due to policy changes at the U.S. Consulate in ET. I went into a fit with this information! A complete lack of faith on my part that God's grace is sufficient even when I am disappointed and hope is temporarily deferred.
I forced myself out of my pity party and chose to remember all the miracles God has done in this journey. Once I considered this long enough, I came to this conclusion: We have stood in the shadow of many mountains and He has moved every single one!
The price tag for an international adoption from ET is a whopping $25,000 + sum. We sent in our $250 application fee believing that God would provide what was needed if, indeed, this was His will. We made many sacrifices to come up with our initial costs and we were able too meet all our obligations.
I've already written at length about the miracle story behind a great portion of our fees being paid, but it is worth mentioning that this particular miracle began rolling toward us in 2005, before Nya's birth!
Clayton's heart was radically, and I mean radically, shaken for our daughter and her country. The Holy Spirit testified to Clayton's heart what He had already put in mine and all Clayton's fears and apprehensions about beginning a trans-racial family were eliminated. Since then, many people in our families have come to appreciate our choice to adopt and are excited about Nya's homecoming. This may not sound like much, but it is a mighty miracle! Even more mighty than all the ways He has provided for Nya to come home, the fact that her family is ready to accept and love her and overcome any obstacle that might prevent that, is perhaps the mightiest mountain moved so far!
Clayton got his dream job and oh, the mountain that was! Nobody believed he could do it taking the path he took, but with God all things are possible! We needed this new income to provide for a larger family and the Lord made that possible.
I was living in chronic pain with a condition that many doctors warned me was hopeless. I found myself wondering if I was capable of caring for another child. Another mountain He moved! He led me to a doctor who, imagine this concept, CARED about me as his patient. He performed a surgery that changed my life.
Our agency was forced to raise fees in the middle of our adoption. Gas prices spiked, the world's economy went topsy turvy and travel costs went up. All of this added up to a sum that made me queasy. Again, I wondered, how could we make this happen? Well, we couldn't, but our God most certainly could!! Another mountain He moved!
These are just some of the ways our Lord has chosen to act on the behalf of our daughter's life. There is not enough time to tell of it all. If only the world could see the heart of our God. We must show them!!
We stand before two more mountains with firm faith that He will move them: our court date and our travel and transition with Nya. We must never forget the miracle of the love He has shed abroad in our hearts and the ability He has given us to lavish that love on others! The greatest miracle! I know that He will move the mountains of hurt, fear, confusion, ignorance, selfishness, etc. so that our family can be a light to others. How thankful and humbled we are.