O my people, listen to my instructions.
      Open your ears to what I am saying,
    2 for I will speak to you in a parable.
   I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—
    3 stories we have heard and known,
      stories our ancestors handed down to us.
 4 We will not hide these truths from our children;
      we will tell the next generation
   about the glorious deeds of the Lord,
      about his power and his mighty wonders.
 5 For he issued his laws to Jacob;
      he gave his instructions to Israel.
   He commanded our ancestors
      to teach them to their children,
 6 so the next generation might know them—
      even the children not yet born—
      and they in turn will teach their own children.
 7 So each generation should set its hope anew on God,
      not forgetting his glorious miracles
      and obeying his commands.
PS 78:1-7

This morning I was still struggling with feeling like God wanted to tell me something and I just wasn't hearing him.  I finally took a note pad and my Bible out on the porch.  I ask God what I was to read.  Psalms 78 came to mind.   So there is where I went.  It is a LONG chapter!   As I read I realized that I am struggling with some lies that have been whispered and some that haven't even been whispered to me.   The lies are in two main areas. 

One adopting a 16 yo girl.  It is amazing how many people KNOW that this child is "damaged", or "more than you can handle" or just question why we would consider a 16 yo.   I do know that 16 is a hard age.  I have vague memories of being 16 and it being hard, with a loving mom.  I can't imagine having no stability and being 16.  We may not "know what we are getting into."  I am sure it will harder in many ways than we dream, but I am also sure that the rewards will be bigger.    We aren't in this alone.  We have a heavenly Father that is guiding us and working not only in us and our family, but our church family and in the child we adopt now before she comes to live with us.   I have and continue to educate myself, my family and my friends about adoption.  We aren't jumping into this.  All this said the bottom line that God again showed me today is He is still in the miracle business.  We have His word on it.  What glorious deeds and miracles will I be able to tell my children, and what will they be able to pass on to their children? 

The other thing I am struggling with is my sister-in-law's health.   It is hard to see people you love not healthy and not even knowing what they need to be healthier.   I do think God is working in that dept.  As they have started to look at other ways to eat and think.   Again I am reminded that God is still in the Miracle business and I need to trust Him.  I can storm Heaven's gates on her behave, but He is the one that has to do the miracle.  He can heal her health.  He can create in her a desire for more.  Like me she grew up in a world where God was on a pedestal.  You believe in Him, yet you don't have a personal relationship with Him.    I moved away and broke that mold a long time ago!  She hasn't!  I am hoping, and yes, praying that as she and her son hang out over here more they will catch the fire for God.  They will see Him in a new and personal way.   We lived in a world that forgot to "tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord,  about his power and his mighty wonders"  I have long since walked away from that world.  I don't even go back there to visit.   I am praying she can come to understand how loving and how personal God can be if we walk the walk.  If we seek Him. 

I know this is rambling and may not speak to anyone, but just for today remember God is a God of Glorious deeds, power an might wonders.  That He is a God of Glorious Miracles.  Remember that today as you go about your day.  Maybe no one has told you God still works Miracles, but He does.  He hasn't changed!