Today is the DAY!

Today is indeed the day!  We took a train from Hong Kong to Guangzhou yesterday and left our tourist selves behind, fully swinging into adoption mode.  The train was wonderful, and gave us a great opportunity to see some of China we didn't get to see the last time.  I found it sobering.  I am still processing the whole thing.  The contrast between the tourist-centered and westernized Hong Kong--complete with Cartier and Tiffany's and the opulent Pennisula Hotel--and the China we saw from our train window, was significant.  We passed city after city after city after city after city...you get the picture.  There are lots of people here.  No glitz.  No glamour.  It was like the perfect contrast between what the world says matters, and what really matters.  I was taken back to another very similar experience I had 21 years ago, when I flew into LA and drove down the coast into Tijuana, to an orphanage, no less.  Where God first planted the seed of adoption in my heart.  Hmmmm.  I love how God brings things full circle in my life.  I love how He reminds me.  I am intensely bothered, dare I say ashamed, that it takes me so long to get it sometimes.   But here I am, and today is the day.  I stand in awe that God would let me be doing this.  Becoming a mom to a little girl for the fouth time.  Becoming a mom for the second time through the miracle of adoption. The lyrics "Who I am that you are mindful of me, that you hear me, when I call?  Is it true that you are thinking of me, How you love me...It's amazing!" keep playing in my head.  My cup overflows.