Jesus, Please....

Jesus, please...Grant me my wish to see, taste and experience this ravaged world that I live in. I plea with you to give me the opportunity to travel to not just one country, one village or one refugee camp, but to many countries and many, many villages and refugee camps where I can hold the hands of children, see the stories in their eyes, smile for those who have no reason to smile, to hear the sound of laughter because that helps get them through a part of their day.

Jesus, I plea with you to grant me the time, the money and the resources to go and visit these children I speak of, your children.
Please, Jesus, please.

I don't think I have wanted or desired anything more in my life than to be among your children in every condition imaginable.

I again, ask of you this request that comes from the deepest, most precious area of my soul.

Jesus, please.....again, here is the prayer you so simply gave to me one day in a past writing. I believe it speaks with great volume of my heart and my desires. No, we are not able to have our own children I understand more than I'd like to know, and yes, adoption is still a possibility, but if nothing else, I ask and pray for you, your will to give me the desire of my heart to place my feet on the many lands of these children all over the world. I then will understand that these children will be called our own. Jesus, please....

Aching heart your fears are valid
Aching couple your desires have been heard

Do as you are asked to do and I will grant you with my ultimate joy and peace
It may not look like what you had in mind, but bear with me as I continue to work in you both

Your hearts will be enflamed with children from many worlds, many places and backgrounds
Your hearts will take hold of such faces, such conditions that will feel like they are your own

These children are your own, in a way that you will forever change the path of their lives
These children are your own, in a way that will fulfill you like no other

Continue to wait for me
Continue to follow me
Continue to have faith in me
Continue on the path I have called you to and you will be given your hearts' desires

Know it's my timing, not yours
Know I relish you both in ways that make me proud
Know that I have plans for you and the ones that you love, whether they are yours or anothers'

I'm listening
I'm here
I'm all that you need