All I Really Want for Christmas

We have been talking about God's timing in our house a lot lately. We have been impatient wanting to get back over to Russia to get Kim and Peter. God has said wait. Now I look around at all the work that has gotten done around the house and am so thankful it is finished. I'm thankful that I have been here to support my friends through some of their trials over the last couple weeks and know that God is in control.

One other thing that God has really hit me with twice now is Steven Curtis Chapman's song "All I Really Want for Christmas". You see three years ago when we were still making excuses about why we couldn't adopt, I couldn't get away from it. It seemed to be EVERYWHERE and every time I would hear it, it would bring me to tears.

Well I heard it again this year, and again I am in tears, but this time it is different. You see, this year right before Christmas we are bringing our children home. For Kim and Peter, this is the year that they will have a family.



"All I Really Want for Christmas"
by Steven Curtis Chapman
(2005 Sparrow Records, EMI CMG)

Well, I don't know if you remember me or not
I'm one of the kids they brought in from the home
I was the red-haired boy in an old, green flannel shirt
You may not have seen me, I was standing off alone

I didn't come and talk to you 'cause that's never worked before
And you'll probably never see this letter, anyway
But just in case there's something you can do to help me out
I'll ask you one more time

All I really want for Christmas is someone to tuck me in
A shoulder to cry on if I lose, shoulders to ride on if I win
There's so much I could ask for, but there's just one thing I need
All I really want for Christmas is a family

Well, I guess I should go ahead and tell you now
If it's really true about that list you have
Somehow I always seem to end up in a fight
But I'm really trying hard not to be bad

But maybe if I had a brother or a dad to wrestle with
Maybe they could teach me how to get along
And from everything I've heard, it sounds like the greatest gift on earth
Would be a mom

All I want for Christmas is someone who'll be here
To sing me happy birthday for the next 100 years
And It's okay if they're not perfect or even if they're a little broken
That's alright, 'Cause so am I

Well, I guess I should go, it's almost time for bed
Maybe next time I write you I'll be at home

`Cause all I really want for Christmas is someone to tuck me in
Tell me I'll never be alone, someone whose love will never end
Of all that I could ask for, well, there's just one thing I need
All I really want for Christmas is a family