Four Years Ago...
Four years ago our lives were forever changed as we welcomed four precious Ukrainian born children into our family. The morning of April 7, 2009 we stared at these pictures in the government office and I heard these words spring forth from the deepest places of my soul as the Lord spoke, " For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:8-9 We said, "Yes." Then, on April 21, 2009 we heard the judge declare four additions to the Merida household. " Praise the LORD! Praise, O servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD! Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the LORD is to be praised!... He gives the barren woman a home, making her the joyous mother of children. Praise the LOR...