Last week was a busy week starting with commitment to our baby girl, hiring a social worker to complete our home study, paying fees to Reece’s Rainbow, communicating with our facilitation team in Eastern Europe and starting all of their paperwork, compiling lots of copies of documents for our social worker, filling out the really long autobiography for both Shawn and I, dropping off medical forms to our pediatrician for the our little ones, and ending the week with a TB test on both of us. Now today starts just as busy, mailing off our I600A to the US Department of Homeland Security, getting certified copies of our marriage certificate, having our TB test read and picking up the medical form on both of us. We are praying hard every day that the Lord watches over our baby girl and keeps her safe. With all the turmoil taking place in Eastern Europe, we pray she is in a safe area and will not be affected by the outcome, for if she is, she will forever remain in Eastern Europe. We are also praying for God to watch over and protect all those precious kids that will be affected by this outcome. We are still waiting for Reece’s Rainbow to complete our family profile page so people can donate directly to them for our adoption. Please pray for our family and all the kids in Eastern Europe.
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Submitting to Gods will for us
When we begin an adoption journey we submit ourselves to a process, which enables us to bring the child home. We submit ourselves to someone else’s opinion because we have to have a home study created by someone else who judges our motives, our character and our means. We submit ourselves to God’s will for our lives even when others would deem us irrational. Yet we submit. God does not call us to become part of the crowd. He does not ask us to go with the flow. He asks us to submit to His calling on our lives whether it makes sense or not. Noah building an ark on dry land made no sense yet he submitted. Abraham sacrificing his only son made no sense, yet he submitted. Mary, was chosen to be the mother of Christ which she must have known would submit her to others ridicule, yet she submitted when she said “be it unto me according to Your will.” She submitted. And so do we. God gives us strength to continue to submit to His will even when it’s not easy. Proverbs 3:5-6 says: 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Shawn and I are submitting to Gods will with the adoption of our new baby girl, He placed her in our hearts and life, He has already provided some of the financing and we are trusting in Him to provide the rest as we submit to His will for us.
I am not really sure where to begin, since I have never blogged before. So I will start with Monday March 10, 2014 as the day we committed to a precious baby girl in Eastern Europe that has downs syndrome and a heart defect. Since Monday we have been in a whirlwind of paperwork trying to get copies for everyone and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. We pray everyday for God to watch over our angel and keep her healthy and safe until we can bring her home. We are hoping to travel no later than October and maybe as early as September, but are still wandering how we will accomplish all the legal appointments in Country as well as Court with our two little ones by our side. We might need to find and pay for a person to travel with us, to babysit while we take care of business, we are asking God to work this out for us. Our home study is scheduled for Sunday March 23rd and I am already working on our Dossier as well. Reece’s Rainbow is still working on our family profile page, when it is ready I will link it here so if anyone wants to donate directly to us through the agency it would be awesome and they can feel better about the money going directly to the agency.
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