Hello friends! It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've posted an update on here...but writing about each piece of paperwork can get boring! Thankfully, we've conquered most of that mountain and are very close to getting our dossier packet ready for send-off. Our home study was completed and approved around Christmas (yahoo!) and we have sent off our application to US Customs and Immigration for approval to bring an international child into the USA. Part of that application process involves being fingerprinted again, and then about a 45-60 day wait time for processing of the application.
In the middle of this waiting period, we've found out that our upcoming transfer with the Coast Guard will land us in Washington DC; we'll be moving at the end of May. On the adoption side of things, this means once we've settled into our new home, we'll have to have our home study updated along with a handful of other forms. It complicates and increases the expense, but we felt strongly that God was urging us to start the process this past summer instead of waiting until we move. We trust Him with the complicated and confusing, so onward we go...
The support we continue to receive from all of you is truly such an amazing gift. From shopping via our amazon affiliate link, to contributions, prayers, supportive words and conversations, sharing inspiring links and books...we feel very loved and equipped with a team rallying behind us as we move closer and closer to bringing a child(ren) into our home. Thank you, deeply. One thing I've seen continuously in the past year, through the complexities and challenges of this adoption process, some family health problems, tricky timing of certain events, is that Christ always shines. Through his church he shines, through illness he shines, through confusion, red-tape, expenses, waiting,waiting,waiting, he shines brilliant in his goodness and faithfulness and love for us. I'm thankful for the challenges of this process because it keeps me looking towards his light that permeates all darkness, it draws us closer in prayer and partnership with fellow Jesus lovers. I've learned, in spite of hard things, that is worth it, it is IT.
We welcome you to continue to pray for us as we approach moving, finishing up our dossier packet, navigate fundraising, and most importantly, continue to prepare our hearts and minds for the reality of bringing a child who's lived through trauma into our family. Pray especially for the little ones who wait, who may not even know what they wait for, but have deep aches and hurts written across their hearts.
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