God Continues to Move...

I just have to tell you that I have been more driven to the two children idea than my husband. He was at first, but then became concerned about the financial aspect of everything. Our van only seats 7, etc. I have continued believing, but have been waiting for the Lord to show Matt what His will for us is. I have had fear too, don't get me wrong. I didn't want to be "convincing" him of what I thought we were to do. I wanted to submit to him as the leader in our home, and for him to make this decision. I have been praying for the Lord to reveal His will to Matt and allow him to lead us in this decision. Matt is a wonderful man, just a little more on the quiet side. :)

Last week I went up to my sisters house two hours away. Matt had the house all to himself. As I was driving, I was asking the Lord to just reveal His will to Matt. The next morning I called to tell him something I heard from the director about one of the kids at the orphanage. He has not cared that I pursued more information about these, because both of us were trying to figure everything out. Anyway, he said, "Well, we are for sure adopting two, so I guess we will just have to really pray about this!" I said, "What did you just say?" "What do you mean?" "How do you know?" He told me that he could explain it all to me later, but that some things happened last night to show him. I came home the next night to a beautiful letter from him explaining how the Lord spoke to him through a passage in Mark. Jesus was asking his disciples, "How many more miracles do you need?" That hit Matt because the Lord has performed sooo many miracles in this already. Then he went on to read about Jesus asking his disciples why do they worry about food, and then feeds the 5,000. Finally, Mark 11:22-25 was it..."If you believe, you can say to this mountain to move over there and it will..." He wrote, I Believe! He told me after he read that he prayed that the Lord will bring our two children home by the end of this year debt free...and he BELIEVES!!!

It is a letter that I will cherish forever! Not only does this letter represent the confirmation from the Lord that we are to adopt two, but because it is affirmation from the Lord as to what happens when I, as a wife, commit to praying for my husband and allow him to lead us the way the Lord intended. I am so grateful to be his wife and his partner! I will now wait on the Lord to confirm with Matt who the second child is that we are suppose to adopt. I just wanted to share with you what is happening in our lives!

PROCESS UPDATE---

We met with our social worker last week. She is just fabulous! I am so glad that we obeyed the Lord in going with her. She is working as hard as she can to get everything together for us as quickly as possible. She will come visit this Thursday to inspect the house.

Our Dr. called and the lab that they sent our blood to forgot to run one of the required tests. He was very apologetic. We went back in and had more blood taken. Hopefully by the end of this week we will receive our letters from him for our dossier.

We met with the physcologist last week. We started out feeling like he thought we didn't know what we were doing, but by the end we had his full support. In the beginning when I could sense him not approving of our decision (he said nothing like that, it was just a vibe I was getting) I began to sweat and started asking the Lord to please help us. The whole ton completely changed and he was incredibly supportive. Without us saying anything about having a relationship with the Lord, he said he found us to be very religious and asked what part that had in our decision to adopt. We explained that it is the foundation in everything that we are doing! It was amazing to literally feel the Lord move and change the tone of the meeting. We should be receiving our letter from him in the next couple of days.

We attended an adoption seminar over the weekend. We received all of the required credits needed for our homestudy by attending that. It was a very encouraging day! One of the ladies there spoke about how the Lord was asking them to adopt #6 and they said they couldn't because they didn't have room in their car. Well, the Lord being the Wonderful God we serve, provide this family a used van! I can not tell you how encouraging that was for Matt and I to sit and listen to their story of God's faithfulness in their lives.