Humbled

Wow!  What a crazy weekend.  The garage sale fundraiser was a huge success!!  Thank you to each and every one of you who donated goods, came out to help with set up/manage garage sale, and just stopped by to say hi!  We are so blessed by your help!  A huge shout out to our Life Group.  SO many of you guys stopped by or helped.  We love each and every one of you guys and are so thankful for your placement in our lives during this season.  So, before the garage sale, I really had a feeling that we were going to have a good result.  And did we ever!!  We made exactly what our goal was!!  Such an encouragement of God's faithfulness!  My eyes have been opened so much to what happens when you "LET GO AND LET GOD" as the saying goes.  We have seen God's provision, and I am certain that we will continue to until we reach our ultimate goal of $25,000 to bring our little munchkin home!  Every day I fall more in love with him.  And every day, I grow impatient to get to meet him.  We are still so far out.  And things seem to be moving so slow.  Clay has been traveling nonstop lately.  Which basically puts a lot of the stuff we can do on hold.  But, I do know that God's timing is perfect.  And he has this whole process perfectly mapped out for us.  So, I will *try* to relax and continue to LET GOD. 

I continue to be amazed by people during this process.  I will admit, before all of this, I really had gotten a bit of a negative attitude towards people.  I had lost faith in mankind.  But, man have my eyes been opened.  A few weeks ago at church we had a family that we do not know very well, come up to us and hand us a check for $500.  They, too, had adopted, but still!  That is no small chunk of change!  Saturday at the garage sale, a family from our life group gave us a check for $200.  What a blessing!  An old friend from my old playgroup not only gave us a ton of stuff for our garage sale, but also a check for $100.  And Sunday, I got a text from an old friend that I used to work out with every morning at Crossfit.  We haven't seen each other in several months.  She had texted me a while back and said that for Lent, she was giving up her cheat meal every week.  And she wanted the money she would spend on it to go to our adoption.  WOW!  So, I met her yesterday and she gave me $100 for our little guy.  Really!?  Tonight I got an email from a friend from nursing school telling us they wanted to send money.  I am completely humbled by each one of these people.  God is using them to show me His faithfulness and provision.  I feel so blessed to know each and every one of these people.  But, it's not just those who have given us money.  It's those who have prayed over us.  Said encouraging words, or just been there to listen to us talk about our little guy.  We are so thankful for our support system.  Thank you, all of you, who pray for us through this walk.  We love all of you and hope that we can one day be there for you the way you have been for us. 

John 15:12-15 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Exciting news - Short and sweet!

Another NON- adoption blog post!  But, this HAD to be documented.  And, since I am not a journal person, or a blogger  (this doesn't really count does it?), I will document it here!  Last night in the Richey house was a big one!  Tuesday nights I am not home because I am busy making people want to puke at Crossfit Endurance classes (yes, I find pure joy in this!).  So, unfortunately, I missed the biggest thing to happen at our house yet.  But, I got the full report when I got home.  Last night, our sweet sweet Jack made a decision that will change his life forever.  He and Clay were in his bed for his normal nighttime routine, and he told Clay "Daddy, when I die, I want to go to heaven."  He wasn't asking how this happens, he wasn't asking questions about it.  He knew.  He knew without a doubt that he was ready to make that decision.  That would change his eternal existence.  The topic had come up a few times before, and Clay and I just thought to ourselves, he is too young.  He doesn't really understand.  So, we answered his questions, but never acted on them.  Well, last night was different.  And, Clay knew.  So, Clay pulled out his handy Iphone Bible app, and went over Romans 3:23 with him.  And then they prayed together, and Jack accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior!  I was in tears when Clay told me about it.  This is what we long for in life....our children...the little creatures that we love most in this world, to decide to follow Jesus!  What an awesome thing!  We just kind of have a feeling that Jack is going to take after his namesake and go into the ministry one day.  We could be wrong.  Just a hunch.  He has such a pure view.  I love how innocent children are.  They are not yet corrupted by this world we live in.  So innocent.  So simple.  So pure.  One day we will have that pure life again.  Can. Not. Wait!