Learning along the way

This journey of Adoption is teaching me so much about myself, about other people, and about my relationship with the Lord. God is using it to draw me nearer to Him and to show Himself to me in ways I never thought possible. I am learning about prayer and about what it means to hope in the Lord, to believe in miracles, and to also trust his perfect plan and will for our lives. I am learning that there is a fine line between hoping in the Lord and getting my hopes up. I am learning about praying with confidence and asking the Lord for things that only he can do, meanwhile knowing that His plan may not be my plan. A few mornings ago after I praying for our court date,  I was reading in 1 John and the Lord gave me this passage....

"This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him." 1 John 1:14-15

I am praying with confidence that the Lord is hearing my requests and that He will carry out his perfect plan! I am so thankful that I do not have to bear my burdens on my own. My God is there to pick me up when I fall, when I fail to trust Him, and when I am so unsure of myself and my future. He will be there to pick me up when I crumble under the reality of how far away my daughter is. He will be there to help me get through the excruciating months of separation after we have held her and kissed her sweet face. He is teaching me so much, and for that, these months are priceless.