We Have a Date!

WE HAVE A DATE!  PRAISE THE LORD!   After months of waiting, and many messages and promises of two weeks... I can finally say, in officially two weeks Baby C will come home!  I am still in shock.  To be honest there were moments in the last few months where I wondered if we would ever receive this phone call.  I think I am still walking around in a fog.

We received a phone call today that Edmonton approved the match!  I am so excited and overwhelmed at the same time that God is entrusting baby C to us.  I have wondered, are we truly the best family for him?  Today, with Edmonton saying yes, God confirmed as well, that yes, he wants us to raise Baby C as our own.  WOW! 

So, what does that mean, and why two more weeks?  Now that they said yes we have to have an info sharing session for legal purposes where we learn everything we don't know/or may not know about Baby C and his history.  The soonest all of the social workers involved can meet is... two weeks, Nov. 7.  We will meet with them in the morning, and then we have 48 hours to decide if we want to proceed.  If we still want to proceed (hmm, let me think about that), then Baby C will come home on Thursday, November 10th.  Once he is home, we will begin the official adoption paperwork that takes about a year.

And so... for two more weeks, we wait.  Well sort of.  Now begins the list making and nesting instinct.  What do I need to do to get ready?  What can we do to prepare? 

Thank you all for your prayers.  We will continue to update you as we can.  Over the next two weeks please pray that we will be able to continue to focus on today and enjoy each moment that we have.

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13

trust

Well, two weeks has come and gone, and still we have heard nothing... That seems to be the common theme, every two weeks we hear "two more weeks."  My heart breaks today.  Not so much for Baby C, he is safe, growing, and in a loving home.  My heart breaks for all the babies.  There are so many babies that have the opportunity for life, but no one to care for them.  There are no beds for them to rest in.  They are lying in offices waiting for a home, for somebody to be able to care for their basic needs.  Here I sit, helpless, waiting for the government, waiting, two more weeks.  Today, I pray.  I pray that God will give strength to the weak, patience to the anxious, comfort to the lonely and abused, joy to the burdened.  I pray for the social workers.  Though they are overworked, weary, tired, worn out, I pray that they will find the strength and energy to do the paperwork.  The paperwork not just for Baby C, but the paperwork for all the waiting potential foster homes and the waiting adoptive homes.  I pray that those God is speaking to will listen.  If God is telling someone to do respite, foster or even adopt, I pray that they will start the process.  We may be the only link these children have to a future, not only here on earth but eternally. 
God has laid several passages of scripture on my heart today.  I choose to focus on these, and find my strength and comfort from them:

Psalm 27:14

“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.”       

Isaiah 40:31

 But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
They will walk and not faint.

Genesis 8:6-12

After another forty days, Noah opened the window he had made in the boat  and released a raven. The bird flew back and forth until the floodwaters on the earth had dried up. He also released a dove to see if the water had receded and it could find dry ground. But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.  After waiting another seven days, Noah released the dove again. This time the dove returned to him in the evening with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. Then Noah knew that the floodwaters were almost gone. He waited another seven days and then released the dove again. This time it did not come back.

I think of Noah.  Here he is hearing God say build a boat.  So he builds a boat.  Not just any boat.  This boat took years to build.  Then God sent all the animals to the boat.  Then Noah and his family went on the boat and God closed the doors.  And for the first time ever God sent rain.  Can you imagine what it would be like to see water falling from the sky and have no clue what it was?  It rained and rained and rained.  When it finally stopped Noah wasn't able to open up the door and just get out and start life again. He had no clue what was going to happen.  His only choice was to trust God. Trust Him completely.  God asks us to trust Him.  Not just today, when things are going well, but every day.  When there is no way out, when the floods are high and it feels like we can't survive, he asks us to trust.  I pray that we will trust, TODAY.