God’s Gift From India

My devotions this morning were very fittingly from 2 Corinthians 1:11 which Paul writes: "You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many." I had to re-read that about 10 times.  Paul asks the Corinthian believers to pray for him because he was in need. The Corinthian believers responded by praying to God. God answered their prayer by pouring out His gracious blessings on the apostle Paul. As many of the Corinthian believers who were praying for Paul now hear that God has met that need, they in response give God thanks for blessing Paul.  Friends and family, Denae and I had a need that we brought before you. Some of you knew this need roughly 2 1/2 years ago, some of you heard of this need just this past week. Either way, whenever you heard of it, we asked you to be in prayer for us. We appealed to you for prayer because we know that what we were doing - this entire adoption process - could o...

 We made it to Delhi late on Friday evening! Keerti did great on the flights! On Saturday, we had to have a medical appointment for Keerti in order for her to be able to get her Visa back to USA. We had to get her blood drawn, which was not fun 😞  She weighed 9 kilograms or 19.8 lbs! She was 79 cm or 31.1 inches tall!  After her medical appointment, we went to apply for our exit permits. We had all the proper paperwork to do so and now we are just waiting on the results!  Sunday was a much needed day of rest. It actually was the first day in India that we had NOTHING to do and we were so excited for that! We explored different areas of our hotel for a while and then we just hung out in our hotel room.  The view from our hotel room...India is BEAUTIFUL! On Monday, again, we had nothing to do, which was so wonderful! As we slowed down and got to focus on bonding with Keerti in the hotel room we really got to see her start to blossom and show her personality. That...