His eye is always watching and His hand is always leading

Wow, what a beautiful day we are having today! 80's and sunny. The girls and I have been planting flowers, riding bikes, and enjoying the outdoors. This year each girl got 6 impatients (Caroline chose red so Cathryn got white to match) and they planted them themselve and will rotate watering them each day ( they are intermixed so we don't want to fight about who gets to water.)

Have I even started on Caroline's 'new bedroom'? Of course not! I am determined to start next week by painting the furniture we bought at a garage sale and go from there. She wants to move into her new room pronto. I have been putting it off because it has been raining on and off and I want to paint the furniture outside, now that it is warming up I have no excuse.

This weekend, we are off to Gull Lake Bible Conference (Kalamazo MI area). We are very excited to be by the water, doing outdoor activities and hearing the guest speaker, Ray Vanderlaan. Do you know of him? He gives tours in Israel and speaks about the Bible from the perspective of the Jews/Christians of Israel (during the times of the Bible). I love his teaching!
We go with Chris' parents and my sister in law and her family. The girls love being with their cousins! Two more sleeps away.

I will end off on this note, we are studying the book of Esther at church now. Did you know that God isn't even mentioned in this book of the Bible BUT God has placed Esther in her position to save the Jews. Once again His eye is always watching and His hand is always leading! This is encouraging to me because even though it seems like nothing is happening with our adoption, His eye is always watching and His hand is always leading. Not my will but your will be done Lord. Give me patience and prepare us for our son as well as him for our family!