I want to thank everyone for your prayers, words of encouragement and your support since I began the adoption process. I am so grateful for my friends, family, church family, strangers-or should I say new found friendships who have so generously given so that a child can have a forever mommy! Thank you SO MUCH for joining me at my spaghetti dinner fundraiser last Sunday.
Every journey to bring home my child is special and God is using it to teach me so many things. God has assured me that He WILL provide...EVERY penny...in His TIME. As Sunday morning rolled around I began to stress and worry as I always do. Would I have enough food? Will enough people show up? I hope it doesn't rain and then people won't come out in the rain. Oh God was just beginning to chuckle at me. You see, He's trying to teach me that He, NOT ME, loves this child more and wants the very best for this child...and YES, wants this child to have a FOREVER MOMMY.
And through this teaching He is trying to get me to believe that HE has it all under control...tornado warnings, hail, rainbow and all
While God was having His little chuckle and I was being my stubborn little self, He brought in LOTS of people to eat LOTS of spaghetti while sharing LOTS of laughs and having LOTS of fun times. Through your love HE BLESSED ME with raising $1100 that night!!! Praise God!!!
While God was having His little chuckle and I was being my stubborn little self, He brought in LOTS of people to eat LOTS of spaghetti while sharing LOTS of laughs and having LOTS of fun times. Through your love HE BLESSED ME with raising $1100 that night!!! Praise God!!!So, YES we had LOTS of friends & family, LOTS of spaghetti....thank you Carman for "going to hail and back" to get a few extra boxes of spaghetti to ensure we didn't run out (my dear friend ran out to Kroger to buy a few more boxes of spaghetti, IN THE HAIL STORM). Yip you guessed it, we had LOTS of rain, LOTS of hail, a tornado warning that seemed to last forever, and then God blessed us with a beautiful rainbow! It was quite the show. I had at least 3 men standing outside watching the sky making sure we were safe. Then I had 2 people with weather radios listening to make sure the "big tornado" wasn't coming. And I can't forget the number of people checking their phones for the weather radar. When will I ever learn that God has it under control. He was so laughing at me saying, "sista, when will you listen to me? I said I would take care of you. I brought you lots of people, now I was just providing a little free entertainment". Oh how I love you God!
Thank you God for a beautiful rainbow!
Yes that's the hail!
My little Lizzie Bug, Love you!
LOTS of friends & family!
Thanks Derek for serving! And I can't thank my weather spotter Fred for helping keep us safe during the tornado warning!
My girls-Lizzie, Katie & Hailey love the pink hair!
LOTS of friends & family!Thank you for sharing this wonderful journey with me!
Much Love,
Angie Staten
