Introducing the Newest Cabeen!

Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should, go for You I lift up my soul. Psalm 143:8 NIThank you Jesus!!!!!!

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011. He is OURS!!!!!!! That morning the verse above was the verse I read while journaling-prior to the call. Since March 5th, when we first thought that we had been approved, we have waited, waited, waited and waited to hear those precious words. We believed God had already choosen us to be his parents-we were waiting on the Ethiopian System to allow it!
In every step of the way God was guiding our path-he may have not done it in the timeline I had planned, but here are a few reasons how I know:

The Call: Our referral date was July 30th, 2011-we were 4 days shy of knowing his face for one year when we got the judge's ruling. Kenny and I are also in Vacation Bible School this week-we were at VBS last year when the first call came through.

For those of you not on facebook-this was the BEST way to introduce Isaiah Minalachew to Austin MN....Monday during VBS Kenny spoke about his brother, he prayed for him, created necklaces for him, drew pictures of him (right corner of CONGO Flag...you can see a little boy, airplane, water).

Okay so Monday Kenny's class of soon to be first graders layed hands on him and they prayed for his little brother in Africa, that he would be safe and come home soon. Kenny was with me tuesday when we received the call-he screamed, jumped and hugged everyone shouting "My Brother is coming HOME! God answered my prayers!"

At VBS Tuesday Kenny got up in front of the 100 plus kids and told his testimony--it was amazing! (sorry this is sideways again...but you will get the idea)

We are now working on securing the birth certificate and I am starting to really let this all sink in, I told Rob this morning I keep looking up for the boulder of bad news to come crashing down on me, but each day that has passed since tuesday-pieces of the boulder of "bad news" chip away and I can start to exhale-something I have waited a long for.

And one other thing I have waited to share....now that the judge has ruled...The Cabeen's would love to introduce you to Isaiah Minalachew Cabeen!

***check out the "green crayon" in his hand from a previous blog post :)