It has seemed, over this whole 21 months, that when we get some good news, be on the lookout for bad news to follow! So I wish I would've seen our agency worker's email before I walked out the door yesterday so I could've been prepared for the awful day that followed! Our oldest girl has the itchy stage of chicken pox, our 4-year-old and 1-1/2 year-old were almost more than I could handle in the car on errands, and our neighbor decided to sue us. When it rains it pours!!
But even though we are dealing with so many annoying things, we are so thankful to God for growing us in faith, and allowing us to see His promises coming true. Someone asked me the other day if I'm angry that we've been waiting so long for our kids and how frustrating it must be for us. I responded that we are just waiting and praying, knowing that God is in control of when they come home and that He's taking care of them until He turns them over to us. We rest in that knowledge. It breaks our hearts that they have to live in an institution (even though they are getting really great care), but we HAVE to trust that God has it all taken care of. As our pastor says, He's God and You're Not. There's absolutely NOTHING I can do to get those kids here any faster. They are legally ours (their last name is the same as ours!), I could go live in Haiti and they could come live with me, but that doesn't mean I could circumvent any of the processes.
So We Wait.
We will go when God tells us to go, and until then, we stay.
We are trying to come up with options for travel and bonding and staying and flying and everything. So we're preparing what we can. But there's nothing set in stone until God releases us to go get them. We're getting excited though that there's a faint light at the end of the long tunnel!
Thank you for your continued prayers. Their coming home will be a whole new prayer request! :o)
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