Blessings abounding in Bulgaria!

We are so blessed to be back in Bulgaria awaiting our trip to SZ to meet JoyAnna. We'll leave this afternoon at 2:00 to make the 3.5 hour journey there! Kids back home are doing awesome! That's such a blessing, too! Please take a moment to listen to our new song on our blog. The words are amazing, and really speak volumes to what we've been through in the last 2 months in having God take Zoey to heaven, and then being matched with JoyAnna! Our blessings have truly come through pain and rain drops and tears!, just like the lyrics say! Thank you all for journeying along with us! Here are the lyrics to the song:

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
And all the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt your goodness, we doubt your love
As if every promise from Your word is not enough
And all the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not,
This is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if your blessings come through rain drops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near

What if my greatest disappointments or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise 

In the meantime, we rejoice in God's beautiful creation! Trying to stay awake yesterday afternoon, we walked and walked in Sofia. It was just wonderful! The temperature was 79 degrees! Totally the shot in the arm we needed! Thank you Lord!  Here are a few shots!

Just had to post this photo of green grass that needs to be cut already! WOW! Beautiful and sooooo green, and it's still winter here!

People were eating outside!

The beauty of the mountains in the distance was just amazing! Clear skies and you could see for miles!

Just had to post this! Michael Winslow playing next week in Sofia! He's known s the man of over 10,000 voices! He did all of the sound effects and voices for the police academy movies from long ago. And yes, he may be a relative our our Jon....seriously...they have a LOT in common! :) :) :)

Just had to share the beauty of the mountain tops from our hotel room this morning!

Such a blessing!

 Thank you God for bringing us here again for such a time as this! The blessings continue to abound and we remain forever grateful!