God ordains

The rest of the story....
On the Friday before Mother's day I was asked to speak at a banquet about adoption. Now, we had hoped to be on the waiting list for a child a few weeks ago but forms had to be revised and we had to wait to get our homestudy back. It seemed like it was never going to happen. Bryan and I were starting to get a little frustrated as each day went by and we were still waiting to have those last couple documents sent in to complete our Dossier and get on the waiting list.
Psalm 139:16 says that all of our days were ordained and written in God's book before one of those days ever came to be. It could not be more clear that God ordained the day, and time, that we would be put on a waiting list.
I was asked to speak at a banquet on adoption the Friday before Mother's Day. As I was pulling into the driveway of the church, to speak about adoption, for Mother's Day, I get a call from our adoption coordinator. She called to tell me we were officially on the waiting list and tell me what number we were. Talk about timing. Doesn't God always get it perfect? He waited until Mother's Day weekend as I was pulling into the church to talk about adoption to give me the news that we were "paper pregnant"(as a friend calls it). What a special gift for me on Mother's Day to find out that I actually get to be a mother. Surely even an unbeliever could see that God's hand was on this news, as it has been on the entire adoption so far. I thank God for the sweet God sightings that reaffirm us and encourage us. I thank God that I am paper pregnant!! Now....is it going to be a boy or a girl?

55 and 38

I've never had a favorite number before, but today, I do. 38 is now my favorite number in the whole wide world. 38 is our place on the waiting list for our child. On Friday afternoon our Dossier was officially approved and we were placed on the waiting lists. Because we are open to adopting either a boy or girl,(whatever God wants us to have) we are on both the boy and girl waiting list. We are 38 on the boy waiting list and 55 on the girl waiting list. We are just sooo excited that we are FINALLY on the waiting list for a referral. That's all I have to say for now. I'll explain more about the process in a future post.

-amory