Faith of a Child

Believe and have faith. Faith is often easy to talk about, but hard to actually put into practice. I think my problem is that I usually think logical or practical. I need to see the cause and effect. It needs to make sense to me. In many ways this can be a good quality, however when it comes to faith I don't think God wants me to be practical. He just wants me to have faith and believe in Him.
As we have journeyed down this path of adoption I have learned so much. I have seen God in ways that I probably never would have otherwise. Faith is one of the areas that God has grown me the most this past year. I honestly feel I have a come a long way, but apparently I still have a ways to go. As I mentioned in the last post we had talked to our kids this past weekend about everything that needs to happen so that we can travel in March. We talked about how at this point it is all out of our hands, God will have to make it happen. I asked the kids if they believed God could do this and without hesitation both said they believed He could. I asked why they thought that. They said because Ann and I said He could. Just like that I say it and they believe it to be true. I realize that I need faith like that, when God says something to just have faith. When I ask God for something just believe and wait for Him to work.  We put them to bed Saturday and Landon prayed for our letter to come soon. 
I thought I had really learned something until the next morning and I realized there was more. As we sat down together as a family to eat breakfast Sunday Landon began to pray just like many other times. He thanked God for his food, family, his friends, Addie and then he said something I wasn't expecting, "God help our letter to come today so that we can get Addie on March 16th." My first thought was it's Sunday and he does not realize the government offices are closed and our letter is not coming today. And almost in an instant my heart was broken, my faith is shallow and my logic tells me it's Sunday and the letter is not coming today. Whether he realized it was Sunday or not he believed God could do anything. I'm thinking it's not possible and he believes that anything is possible with God. Most days I'm trying to teach my kids how to live their life. How to follow God, praying that they love God with all of their heart, soul, and mind. That they love their neighbor as themselves. However on days like Sunday they're teaching and I'm learning. 
The letter we have been waiting on from the NVC came on Tuesday. We forwarded it to our agency who then sent it to the US Consulate in Guangzhou. Next the US Consulate will issue an Article 5 which asks the CCCWA to issue us travel approval. Then our agency will help us arrange travel and our appointments at the US Consulate's office and then we are off to China. Today we also received our visas from China that allow us to travel. We are thankful that God continues to move things along in this process. We are continuing to pray that these next few steps happen quickly so that we can travel in March. I realize this puts our travel only three weeks away, but we are praying and believing in a God that can do anything. We would be grateful for anyone else who would like to pray with us.