Beyond Beyond

Today we shopped our socks off! We took a short trip to Shamian Island. Used to families would stay on the island to complete their adoptions. This statue is famous for tourists and adoptive families in particular. You see my sweet daughters there? Lol, no because they were scary statues! It's almost like stepping in to Savannah, Georgia...minus the banyan trees. 

Joli loves to walk, and today did lots of exploring...

She's too sweet for words...she has quite the growing personality! 

Kai let her do all the work today...someone is adjusting to this big sister thing. 

Saying hello to a fellow friend. He was kind to her with her being all in his personal space. 

"A yes to the Lord is impossible to qualify on earth because it is Kingdom business. It has eternal repercussions, soul-changing ripples that reach all the way to heaven's shore. That first step into the shallow end is as glorious an act of obedience as the leap off the diving board."-She Reads Truth 

Today we shopped a store that gives back to Chinese orphans. A local stopped us and was asking lots of questions about our girls. She shared that she's adopted herself. She raises money to do heart surgeries for orphans. People really do have an amazing capacity to change the world just one small act at a time. In this place that's so foreign, moments like these make it feel so much like home. It holds stories of our daughters past and our present...we can't help but be overwhelmed by God moving before and behind us. 

As I watch Joli on her shaking legs, taking new steps she reminds me what this journey is like. It is glorious jumping in, but I've often felt my weakness shaking before me. Wading in to the deep and through the unknown carries lots of what if's. Reading that excerpt from She Reads Truth is such a welcome reminder that this journey has repercussions we can't see. 

We just have to keep saying yes...

When we are weary and weak...yes

When we aren't sure if we have the capacity to love...yes

When we get bad news...yes Lord

When the story changes...yes 

Just one small yes at a time! He is a faithful and good good God. 

Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through it all generations, for ever and ever! Amen -Ephesians 3:20-21