Apples, Apples, More Apples and...Coffee

So today my dear friend (who wouldn't leave me alone about making applesauce together) and I made a gazillion quarts of applesauce! Seriously people...I really do think it was close to a gazillion. Ok...maybe it was more like 100 quarts, but it felt like a gazillion. We worked for the entire afternoon. They just kept on coming...more and more apples! I started out tired with a headache, but after a couple of Cokes and a couple of Tylenol...I was feeling much better! That and the fact that she knows how to get to my heart...she started asking me adoption questions!

I have to tell you about this dear friend. Last week she came over to tell me something and in her hand was a cute little gift bag. Now I am a girl that loves, Loves, LOVES gifts! You want me to feel loved...bring on a gift! Little gifts, big gifts...it really doesn't matter. They perk me up like you wouldn't believe. A little candle to a Kitchen-Aid mixer...I love surprise gifts. (Ok! Enough already...you get the idea, I know...sorry!) :) So my friend tells me the little thing she needed to talk about and then hands me her little gift bag. Do you wanna know what was hidden inside that precious bag?? Oh well it was two bags of Starbucks coffee--Regular and Decaf House Blend. And with those two bags of coffee came a committment from her that she is going to keep me stocked with Starbucks coffee until the Lord completes our adoption. How sweet is that!?!?

Now that we are sitting here with nothing big and exciting on the adoption burner...it can feel like people forget that we are adopting. It doesn't feel that way to us in the least. Every day I fight myself to carry on like normal. I fight to not allow the dreaming of our adoption consume my thoughts. I cry out to God from the depths of my heart for the Lord to fulfill His desire for our family! The coffee was not only a pick me up, it was also a gentle reminder from the Lord that He hears my heart's cries. He knows the longings of my heart and He is working!

Thank you, sweet friend, for the afternoon of fellowship, laughing, crying and love! We will be eating applesauce until the cows come home...but I will remember this day and how the Lord used it to encourage me! Thank you for standing beside us, for praying, and encouraging me in the waiting. A good cup of Starbucks and who wouldn't feel encouraged!?!?