Well, our dossier arrived in Kiev last week and is going to be presented this week (Lord willing, it was presented today). Some of the families' appointment date to appear before the SDA in Kiev fell 5-6 weeks after their dossier was presented. If that would be true for us, our first trip to Ukraine would be the last week of December or the first week of January. However, we received information last week that the SDA closes from January 1st-10th, so we are not sure of when we will travel. There's really no way to predict . . . as we said in our last post, we just have to wait. Although we don't know for sure when we will go, we know who does! Our Heavenly Father will allow us to travel in His perfect timing. We are told many times in the Bible to "wait on the Lord" - Psalm 27:14, in fact, tells us to do it twice in one verse, "Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD". This "waiting" is not inactive, though . . . we are to, actively, trust Him and seek Him during this time. He will strengthen our walk with Him, and will draw closer to us, while we draw close to Him (James 4:8). Also, while we wait on hearing from Kiev, we have begun getting Artyr's room ready for him. When he was here in August, he stayed in Grace's old bedroom, which was (as you can see from this picture of when it was first painted) very pink . . .
When Artyr was here, he was very gracious about having to sleep in Grace's old room, but we told him that we would repaint his room before he came back. Well, the repainting has begun . . .
No, the color of his room is not going to be grey, that is just the primer . . . stay tuned for updates on what his room will look like!
Have a God day!
the Roses
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