Crystal, Just wanted to let you know I'm still praying for you. Will be especially praying on Thursday. Thank you for sharing the photo of Jessie, what a sweetheart! My heart goes out to you as you face these last few days of testing before the court date. Just lean on the Lord and allow Him to give you peace. (Easy to say, but oh, so tough to do!) God bless you.
Again, I want to thank each of you for your thoughts and prayers. My family and I appreciate it very much. It has helped comfort us a great deal. We are anxious for Friday - to have Thursday be behind us and hopefully be at peace and start to enjoy the holiday season. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Ok now I am freaking out. My lawyer's secretary just called to tell me that Thursday's hearing has been cancelled!!!!! :shock: I have had concerns with my lawyer before and now they are even greater because she did not leave a reason why with her secretary. Just to tell me that the court filed something and we are to come in and talk to her this Friday. I think this is horrible for her to not tell me what was filed! Now I have to wait, not knowing what is going on. If anyone out there is in the legal field and could possibly tell me why and what the court itself could have filed??????? I am sorry if this is coming across like I have no faith what-so-ever. In the back of my mind I am praying this is a God thing, but my pounding heart needs to calm down a little first.
Dear Lord please give Crystal comfort in this time. Please give her peace in her heart. I pray Lord that you will be beside them in this time. Lord I know all things are in your hands and you know what is best. Please Lord help them to see that Jessie is loved and wanted by Crystal and her family. Reach down now and give this family a peace like only you can give. We pray in Jesus Christ's name and for his sake. And all of God's people said Amen.
Amen and amen!!! Hang in there!!! You might want to call your lawyer and ask her (yeah, I know! Getting past a secretary is next to impossible!) Tina's the one with legal background. She's not been following this thread, so you might want to send her a PM and ask her. You know we're all praying for you!!!
I agree about calling your lawyer. They are working for you, and even if you get the secretary you might at least be able to find out what the court filed. I would guess those records are public domain?????
Something else just dawned on me. Maybe a continuance would be a way the Lord made for the biological dad to get worn down and give up????? The Lord knows your love and determination. I realize that you don't know yet what the court even filed, but there are wonderful possibilities that could be being arranged from above!
Thank you all for your comforting words. I am only getting voice mail when I call my lawyers office. Uggg.... I even tried calling the court house to see if I could find out what was filed - but no luck. I dont like to get my hopes up, but for now I am finding peace in the chance that this is my heavenly fathers way of taking care of the situation. God knows how badly I was fretting about even going to the courthouse. I am praying that maybe the bio father cancelled or signed the adoption papers or the judge filed to allow us to proceed without even a hearing??????? I have to admit I am very frustrated with my lawyer to leave me hanging like this. I pay her alot of money - she was hired to do a job for me and part of that job is to keep me informed. God is good and I am calmer now - thanks again all of you for caring so much. :wink:
hope this helps you Crystal, I couldn't help, but think of a time in my life when I was soo very scared when you were talking about your fear. I have 2 dds. I had an abusive husband who I left after 5 years of marriage. My greatest fear was that he would get visitation rights without supervision or he would get custody. I felt so alone and scared. I had no one to talk to (other than the Lord). No one else understood what I was going through. I laid in my bed and cried harder than I had ever cried before. I thought all hope was lost for me. How could I raise 2 girls without his help? How could I go back to him? for it would be certain death. I thought how could I even think about going back to him. Please God send me someone to talk to. Please help me. I began to sob harder. Then, A vision came I saw the hands of the Lord. I was standing on top of them and He raised me up. For the first time I had peace. I knew God was in control. I just had to give the situation over to Him. I had to trust Him completely. Just so you'll know, My exhusband is no longer in our lives. I've remarried. My husband now is my best friend. Not only will God answer our prayers, but sometimes he adds an exclamation mark. We lift you up in our prayers. God will give you peace. If not today, tomorrow. Blessings, Melanie
I think Satan is trying to discourage you, Crystal. We were all planning to pray for you Thursday and now the hearing is canceled. I think we should all still gather and pray anyway!! Satan doesn't want all these voices united in prayer to the Living God that has the last say in this whole thing. Anything that would keep you, and us, away from a time of fellowship in prayer, he'll throw in front of you. If he can get you scared and worrying about how it will all work out, especially now that the hearing was canceled, he has won. I'll still pray Thursday as planned. Anyone else?
I'm in! And again for whenever the hearing is sceduled. We're with you, Crystal, whatever it takes! Ladies, don't forget to pray for Crystal's husband who is trying to be strong for her and the kids right now! He has a lot of responsibility on his shoulders, and needs just as much support.
I've been praying and fasting every morning for Jessie, but I'll be on for Thursday at a specific time if someone requests it. My computer shows odd posting times, so we need to cooridanate a time for all zones and without looking, I can't remember which zone Crystal is in. Anyway, pick a time (and zone for that time :wink: ) and I'll stop everything to pray again.
Wow, you all are so great. I am in PA - eastern time. The court hearing was scheduled for 2:10 pm tomorrow, Thursday. Friday morning at 11:00 I meet with my lawyer to find out what is going on. I have to tell you all that I have faith that my lawyer has good news for me. After talking to my mom she reminded me that the hearing was cancelled, not resheduled. I have hundreds of people praying for me. She laughed at me (in a motherly way) because we talk of faith and the power of prayer and yet when this phone call happened I thought the worse. Well she is thinking the best. She said to have faith, that this is the work of God. He is saving me from even going into the court room. She knows more then anyone how this has effected me. She is sure this is an answer to our prayers. I am trying my very best to think that positive. However, it is my child and the not knowing is hard. ALL your posts, prayers, stories and comments have been a wonderful comfort to me. I have printed out all of them and read them often to uplift me and to share with my husband (Rod).
Not to get off the subject, but I can't get the time right on this site even when I follow the directions .
Crystal, your last post reminded me of when Peter was in prison and his brothers and sisters in Christ were together praying fervently for him. We all know what happened in his prison cell!!!!......well, he goes to the church and knocks at the door and they all think it couldn't be him! How silly we can be! They had invested countless hours and energy in prayer believing only to doubt when those prayers had been answered in a miraculous way. When are we ever gonna learn???!!!! I will stop and pray tomorrow at 1:10pm CST and praise God for his intervention (in what ever manner He interviened :wink: ) and again I'll pray Friday at 10am CST while you meet with your lawyer. We have every confidence in our Lord!
Brooke - That's great! Thanks for reminding me of Peter. JESUS CHRIST SET THE PERFECT EXAMPLE. "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:3-5) These verses point out aspects of His DIVINE PURPOSE for both Jesus Christ's trials and tribulations, and ours. PERSEVERING PROVES OUR FAITH. "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me." (Phil. 4:13)
OH, WOW!!!! That just reminded me of Hebrews 11 (somewhere in that chapter). Remember how Abraham's faith was proven? He laid Isaac on the alter because he knew that the Lord could raise him from the dead to fulfill God's covenant with him. Without that work, or action, Abraham's faith would have been dead. Instead, he showed his faith by his actions. Talk about trusting God! Wow! I'm getting pumped up!
(Our dumb computer was down for a couple days until we could get it reloaded) Anyway Crystal, forget about phoning the lawyer's office - land on their doorstep - they can't ignore (or avoid) you then. This is God's work - something BIG is in the making and I believe that this is all good. Still praying for you. Hugs, Brenda
