How Great Is Our God

"How great is our God?". I hear that a LOT from a friend of ours who is living with his beautiful wife and charming family in the Dominican Republic. The have followed Gods call on their lives and are preaching God's word in a lost land. Praise GOD!!! We have, just in the past week, had the amazing blessing of another visit from them here in the US. While they were here they told us about God's provision and clear path for them in the DR and we told them how God has been blessing us all over the place with our adoption. How GREAT is our God?

It has not been easy. Friendships have been tested and either failed the test or passed with flying colors. God has been revealed many times and agonizing decisions have been made. We have been more surprised at the hows so far than any thing else. We thought the $7, 500 would come from many different people and places. God revealed again how He can do whatever He wants to do whenever He wants to do it.

You heard me right! Step 2: complete. We sent our paperwork and our scary-huge check into them today. Hopefully we dotted all our i's and crossed all our t's. Linda from Fairport Federal Credit Union, our notary and friend, was awesome and we got a cute selfie with her we will post later(I insisted....yes, I'm that kind of nerd).

So what's next? Why, the beginning sillies!!! Haha, yes, this is the beginning beginning.Step 3: home study and more paperwork. We have, miraculously, come up with the money for the home study, praise God. We now have to make a decision on which agency to use(they work in conjunction with our agency, All Gods Children) for that. We have to paint the boys room, put locks on poisons and medicine doors, fix the basement, fix the storage and get rid of things, make sure that everything is perfect and NYS law abiding. We have all sorts of meetings, meetings with me, Jeremy, both of us, the kids and us, Mariah separately, psychological and medical testing, our biographies to write, lots and lots of paperwork that comes out to thousands of dollars.....whew. Lots to look forward to in the coming months.

It is just hitting me as I write this that things will be actually moving forward now. 3 months has seemed like 6 and I'm sure the next 3-5 months of home study will feel like 10.... but we are excited. And we have lots of things to do. We are both very hands on people(obviously, with 6 kids plus 1 :-) so we are excited to keep going. We can't wait to see how God works this all out.

Please continue praying for precious M, the 8 year old boy that can not see. Through all of this the only thing that continues to make me anxious is the decision of which child will be ours. M is constantly on my mind when I think of bringing our child home and yet I can't see how God would make that work. We want a clear path to what God would will for our lives. So please, while praying for M, please pray that our decision is made very clear to us through God, not our hearts. We only want to do what God wills.

Thank you so much for your prayers. And a special, deep in our hearts thank you to all of you who have given us anything at all for this adoption. I don't care if it was 5$ thrown into our jar at church, you are part of the reason we will be taking a child out of the circumstances he is in in China. Thank you so very much. We love you.