Praise God from Whom ALL blessings flow!

Guess you assumed from the title of the blog that you are an awesome prayer warrior and I will be thanking God for you for the rest of my days! You wonderful friends prayed up a miracle here in St. Petersburg and the judge waived the ten days! I will let you take a moment to let that sink in....................... still need another moment? Okay, me too! :)





Okay, now, may I say that we asked God to intervene and interject His mighty saving power into our circumstance here in Russia. Every Russian told us it was not possible, it would never happen, and they even went so far as to have us sign Powers of Attorney on Friday so we wouldn't have to do it today after court because they were sure we would not be able to stay to do the work ourselves. However, Brian and I prayed very specifically this morning that God would allow us to boldly ask and receive in His name and Jesus' name and I am telling you that nothing short of a miracle happened here today. Our facilitator grabbed me from behind when she said the decision was immediate. Everyone in the courtroom dropped their jaws and then started to look around like, "What just happened?" But I knew what happened, God was working and I really knew, from the very beginning that He would show Himself to us in a big way. I wasn't sure what that way would be, but I knew He would show up and leave no doubt that He had been present with us.

Talk about a faith moment! I was sitting in that courtroom today, palms sweating, literally unable to say my name without stuttering when I first stood up to speak, but I knew God was there with us. I felt His presence, as I often have in the adoption process, and I knew that He was working on our behalf, whatever that might look like.

I'm very sad not to see my sweet beautiful boys tomorrow, but I am SO THRILLED to have my daughter and know that I will not have to leave my little boys behind again for any reason in the near future.

We do not have Mary Margaret with us tonight. It was advised that we leave her at the baby home tonight so that we could very quickly do the things tomorrow that needed to be done. We will pick her up tomorrow and have her with us for the rest of the time. I will post a photo later. Right now I am not on our laptop because Brian is using it to change our flights.

Brian is very worried about leaving his work for an extra two days. If you have any prayer stamina left in you, please do pray that his client is very understanding and nothing negative happens career-wise for him. But for now we are just floating on a cloud and working on all the details we need to work out to get ourselves through the rest of the week in Russia.

Praise GOD!!! And thanks to every one of you who prayed us through this! We will be home on Saturday, just one day short of landing on the Fourth of July! Mom, I wish I had brought Marsha's outfit with me after all! :)

Carol, I have SO much to tell you about court.

Love to you all, and check back later for the full glory of our court day family photo! Guess what, we have a daughter! :)

Matthew 25 (yes, just read the whole chapter, it's worth it!)