Wednesday, December 21, 2011
All this time we've been searching for approval...
...AND WE FINALLY GOT IT!!! Just a couple of days ago we received an official letter from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service notifying us that, upon reviewing our application and credentials, the United States considers us qualified to adopt and will allow Phillip to join our family! It is SO EXCITING to get legit letters like that in the mail, and it will be even more exciting when the letters stop coming and we get to GO pick up what we're really waiting for: PHILLIP!
God has been so good to our family through this whole process. He has been providing for us in so many different ways, through friends like all of you, through crazy "coincidences," and through the generosity of complete strangers too! We've even gotten some anonymous donations, which are very exciting and mysterious of course. Besides the ways He has cared for our financial needs, God has been addressing our spiritual needs all over the place! As you can probably imagine, we weren't exactly ready for this whole thing. God didn't wait for "ready." He never does. He waited for "open" and has taken us the rest of the way, confronting our failures and granting us grace upon grace upon grace. He has promised to finish the work He started in us, and we firmly believe He will. Praise Him for that!
At this point, what we need most seems to be patience! Compared to some adoptions we have heard of, ours is going fairly quickly but that doesn't change the fact that it seems to be taking forever! We want Phillip home NOW, but we've got a little bit to wait yet. Will y'all join us in praying that we will be patient to wait for God's timing? We may not fully understand how important it is that Phillip comes home at the right time, not the soonest time. But God does. Please keep praying that our boy will be ready to come home too. Who knows what he is thinking about adoption. Many kids his age would have given up already, but friends who have seen him recently say he holds out hope for a family. Pray that God will keep that hope alive in him and that he will be eager to come home, ready to trust his new family, and ready to be loved like never before.
We love this boy SO MUCH already and we can't wait for him to meet all of you, our dear and faithful friends. It will mean so much to introduce him to you and say, "Phillip, this person has been praying for you since before you even knew you were getting adopted!" How cool is that??? Super cool, because we serve a super good God. Our hope is that in all of this, He is glorified!
God has been so good to our family through this whole process. He has been providing for us in so many different ways, through friends like all of you, through crazy "coincidences," and through the generosity of complete strangers too! We've even gotten some anonymous donations, which are very exciting and mysterious of course. Besides the ways He has cared for our financial needs, God has been addressing our spiritual needs all over the place! As you can probably imagine, we weren't exactly ready for this whole thing. God didn't wait for "ready." He never does. He waited for "open" and has taken us the rest of the way, confronting our failures and granting us grace upon grace upon grace. He has promised to finish the work He started in us, and we firmly believe He will. Praise Him for that!
At this point, what we need most seems to be patience! Compared to some adoptions we have heard of, ours is going fairly quickly but that doesn't change the fact that it seems to be taking forever! We want Phillip home NOW, but we've got a little bit to wait yet. Will y'all join us in praying that we will be patient to wait for God's timing? We may not fully understand how important it is that Phillip comes home at the right time, not the soonest time. But God does. Please keep praying that our boy will be ready to come home too. Who knows what he is thinking about adoption. Many kids his age would have given up already, but friends who have seen him recently say he holds out hope for a family. Pray that God will keep that hope alive in him and that he will be eager to come home, ready to trust his new family, and ready to be loved like never before.
We love this boy SO MUCH already and we can't wait for him to meet all of you, our dear and faithful friends. It will mean so much to introduce him to you and say, "Phillip, this person has been praying for you since before you even knew you were getting adopted!" How cool is that??? Super cool, because we serve a super good God. Our hope is that in all of this, He is glorified!
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