YEAH! Now it feels like we are getting somewhere. This isn't going to be a long blog. I just wanted to let everyone know that our homestudy is FINALLY complete and approved. Now we finish up the last couple things on our Dossier checklist and start our I-604A (immigration stuff).
On another, but related note. God has shown us time and time again that we are following His will for us. I know some people might have a problem with that statement, but I'm secure in saying. He has provided in a MIGHTY way both financially and spiritually. Here are some examples. I went to work after a day where people had said terrible things about us adopting and tried to convince us not to do it, to find that someone had brought a crib for us. On that same day we received an encouraging note with a check that was postmarked days before. After being told by the FBI that it would be six more weeks until we received our FBI background checks we asked all of our friends and family to pray for God to intervene and speed up the process. We received the background checks one week later. These are just a few of the many ways that God has encouraged us and reassured us. Why? Well there is a reason. I think that it is because God wants Christians to adopt. Adoption is at the center of Christianity. After all, all of us who believe do so because " In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves." Eph 1:5-6. Adoption is incredibly important to God. I think John Piper says it well in this clip.
-Amory
