sky over my freedom

I've updated our needs list in the blog about making our needs known.
Our main needs now are financial for the adoption, mattresses, maternity clothes and a size 6 boy coat. We don't need any other clothes at this time.
We have been enjoying a visit with Leon's mom, sister and two of our nephews. They arrived Saturday night and will be leaving Thursday. We have been able to be with them every day. We have enjoyed home church, swimming, eating, playing games, worshiping in song and fellowship etc. None of us have been getting enough sleep but, we'll catch up next week.
Our snow is melting fast. I think it will be a couple weeks before we see any grass in our lower front yard but, we can see the ground in our well traveled paths and on the driveway. There remains a foot or so on most places of our property and big hills of snow where we scooped it off the roof or shoveled. Before this winter it had been sunny most days with blue sky unless it was snowing or (rarely) raining. This winter the weather was a little dreary with a white sky hovering over a white world. It seemed like it wasn't doing anything but, waiting. No wind,storm blizzard or sun, just quietly waiting. With everything that's been happening with the adoption and expecting a baby and being ready to act on whatever else the Lord directs, the 'waiting' state of the sky was driving me a little crazy.
One day when I was complaining to the Lord about the blah sky He showed me that it was the sky over my freedom. Here I am under this sky doing my favorite job in the whole world and with the supreme womanly privilege of carrying a child in my womb once again. I am so free, everyday. I could be viewing it from a prison cell, a hospital bed, or lost in the woods. I could be without a husband or without children. I could be getting ready to go out to a job that I don't feel I was created to do and spend hours ignoring the refining work of God in my life.