A much BIGGER and better dream...My Heart's Desire continued...

So, in February,  I began to pray simply that God would fill me with the Holy Spirit so I could better glorify Him.  I was kinda asking for it by being so broad in my request :0) I only had to pray this a couple of times before I got an answer.  God responded to my request in a way He never had before.  It was like He put something in me, or had awakened this...this longing, an ache, a desire.  I really didn't even know at first what it was for.  I just knew there was something I HAD to do. 

Around this same time the confirmation class that I get the be a lead mentor for was memorizing the book of James.  Every time we reached the end of chapter one, James 1:27, "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress," I was moved.  I think the seed to adopt was planted in me many years ago, but that scripture must have been like water to my soul because that seed began to grow! 

Out of that (and a few other things that inspired me, I will be posting about them soon hopefully) sprang My Heart's Desire!  Which is to be a good servant to God, my family, and Jesus' "least of these" (Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.  Matthew 25:40).  I have always like Psalms 37:4, "Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart."  Now this scripture means even more to me.  It is His promise to me that if I long to serve Him, taking delight in serving Him and loving others, then He WILL grant me my hearts desire.  Matthew 6:33  reaffirms this promise "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well."  I joyfully remember learning this scripture in the King James version as a song when I was a young child :o) (thank you Sunday school teachers!)

There are more events that inspired us and changed our hearts along the way to officially commit ourselves to two little ones in Ethiopia and I plan to post more about them as soon as I can.  But for now these are some of the events that brought me to be able to let go of any desires I had for additional comforts in this world, have given me the gift of contentment, and changed the desires of my heart forever.