How can I keep from singing...

"He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not, also with him, freely give us all things?"

• 4 donated, first class tickets to Lima and a safe flight



• A wonderful lawyer that has accompanied us everywhere and become a friend


• A lovely hotel that we got for cheaper because of the Godly reputation of missionary friends in Lima


• The safe trip on a bus to Huaraz
  
  
  
• Wycliffe missionary friends that we just met who opened their home for us for a week and their hearts, helping us process the rough first days at the orphanage (Check them out at http://www.adeandrachel.com/ . Much better pictures than we could have gotten in our week there to show Lia's heritage and homeland.)
  
  
  
• Looking at the Andes out the kitchen window while doing dishes



• Nobody got sick (and friends, we are "less than cautious" with street food...)

• Discovering my daughter was the sweetheart of the orphanage and church she attends, and had the best of what one can receive from an institution


• A Christian orphanage


• Safety on the trip back despite an irresponsible driver (NOT my husband, by the way)


• An apartment, also donated to us, bigger than our house in the best part of Lima for a month


• Family and friends without whose prayers and encouragement we would have had some dark days. Keep them coming!


• Isabel's acceptance of Cecilia as a sister ("yes she IS ours!" - Isabel's response to a lawyer telling us she was not officially ours till next Tuesday)


• And most of all, a little girl who has lost her nannies and orphanage siblings overnight, has survived abandonment and surgeries before she could walk, has been brought to a strange house with new people that are fumbling to learn her ways, and still woke up in her pack and play (at 5:15 - but no less cute) saying "mama?"

If Love is Lord of heaven and earth, how can I keep from singing...