Everyone has told us that the process of an adoption is a "hurry up and wait" process. The good news is our "hurry up" is almost over. We had our final homestudy visit (he said we passed :), we will finish our 10 hours of training this week, and our homestudy should be written and in our hands by the end of the month. We've also collected all of the dossier documents that we can at this time. Once our homestudy is in hand we will send it off in order to get fingerprints through immigration. This is where the "wait" aspect comes in. We'll need to wait for an appointment for our fingerprints....then wait for our I171 from immigration giving us approval....then we send our dossier and wait to be approved...then we get a travel date....and then we wait to travel. Do you see the frequently occurring word there?! If you've experienced the wait please tell me I will survive. The thought of my little girl in an orphanage one day longer kills me. At least when I was working on the homestudy and the dossier I was actively working to bring her home but what will it look like to just wait?!
Psalm 27:14
Wait for the LORD; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.
Psalm 33:20
We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield.
Psalm 37:7
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
4 comments:
We are currently in the "waiting" stage too. Constant prayer is what we have been relying on to get us thru.
I hope I can meet Olivia when we travel. If I can I will let her know her mommy and daddy are coming!!
Waiting for us was a lot harder when we were in Nina's country. At least at home we had our lives to keep living...kids, jobs, friends, church, etc. Living, there, we just had our visits to the orphanage and that was that, 2 hours a day and then wait.
It is a long and painful process, but so worth it!
God is teaching you patients. You and I both know when God was giving out patients we were to impatient to wait so we left. He is now trying again to give it back to us. Everything is for good, what a gift we will receive.
Love you,
Mom
P.S. spelled patience wrong, too may years of working in health care!!
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