Feeling thrusted into the blog world again, updates are a must!
We are all settling with the arrival of Josie about 7.5 weeks ago, seriously, time really moves when you have kids! It's like the days are SLOW but the weeks speed by. We've had our highs and lows of multiplying this quickly, as it feels at times, I supervise a daycare with them all in very similar size. I love Love LOVE it but holy smokes, it is HARD!! Glad to know God goes before me and most willing to keep it that way!!
I should have kept up better with the blog as I sit here, thinking how much updating there could be and how much there should be (because you know I could fill up your ears, as I talk with babies all day, I deeply long for adult convos [sometimes]) ... So we will dedicate this blog, to the amazing week that was last week!
... backstory: for those of you reading, you probably are aware that we are adopting two sweeties from DRC. Suzana and Ezra Phillips- *Birth Certificate judgment was Fast. We thought we had loads of time before our court fee of 11 GRAND--- for Adoption judgment, months is what we thought... then it was only a couple weeks. [WOW!]
So there we stood with our truck... *hands on our hips, foot stomp, twitching eye... we got to sell this thing, now* We post all over facebook, nothing. Craigslist, nothing. Take it to a dealership on consignment, nothing yet. It would have been SO easy if it just sold right? =] But God is way classy and wants to show us how to depend on him and not the sale of a truck. We can dig it, not to say it was easy, because it was Not.
The week before the way neat week went down, I told our case worker we would "probably be paying our fee that next Monday" ... you can laugh. because at the time... we had like 3 or 4 grand TOPS. Why I told her that was completely because I was hoping we would have it somehow. So I prayed specifically that the truck would sell (haha) ... its that human nature going against what we know or something; God says "Hey trust me" and I'm like "hey could ya just sell that truck"... "no, stop asking that."
So Monday rolls around and hungry people are picking up their lasagnas and enchiladas from our feed the people fundraiser. Going in and out of the house all morning and I'm finally like I need to check my email (adoptive parents know this feeling of I can't continue this task, or sleep... or eat or ... or .. or UNLESS, i check my email. It's an oxygen tank, the email.) and I have an email from my case worker, some of it is in french from our lawyer in Congo. The english portion says our kids are doing well ( <3 ) the french portion i stare at for at least 5 minutes (like if I stare Harder, I will know the french language). And there was no way the bottom portion was translated from the top, i knew that much.
I email back and ask about the dates [Nov. 11th & Nov 14th] --- answer --- those are the dates our papers go INTO court and COME OUT! We were told court would take 12+ weeks... THAT'S 3 DAYS!!
Obviously, I am super excited. I call Dus (my husband) and tell him; He is super excited.
The next thing I know, he has sent an email to our case worker letting her know of payment on our credit card and that it would be there in 10-14 days...
[Now let me interrupt myself; some reading might be thinking, WHY ON EARTH would you do that & I simply want to put a hault to that thought- It is important to owe nothing to no one when you can help it yes; but as Christ paid the ultimate price, paying our debt, we are unashamed to live with the debt to someone else's life; money will burn in the end and these children deserve to know love and truth. If we can afford a monthly payment to set these kids free, then we do it.]
... The next email that pops up is Dus saying a family member has loaned the money and is sending it special and will be there in the morning! What!
So while this was all happening, there is a sweet mother in law. Calls her husband and says she would like to write a check to cover the court fees. He says "I thought you already did that months back"...
God apparently planted it in this grandpas head before this time of need! Amazing! Our court fee covered.
Sales on our lasagna/enchilada fundraiser... not only did I have help times 3 this time, we made half the amount of last go rounds and made twice as much! Shocked!
God's perfect timing, lines up with some friends we haven't seen in awhile since finding a new home church, bought out all our puzzle pieces for that fundraiser! That was amazing.
And then I get items in the mail for our next and LAST online auction [thank you all who have been making goodies for this, I am in awe of the love you all have for us and our orphans!]
Now you know why last week was so good for the soul.
It is imperative that we pray for DRC and the Gov't with the hold on Visas, as our kids are stuck until they re open.
The ups and downs in adoption are hard, it is such a roller coaster but the end in sight is so worth it, I know it, even if I'm not yet there. God is so faithful to restore our hearts and bring us back to a humble place that says "it just is not always about you". And most times, that is where I desire to be. Remind me Lord! It is not about me, it is about You. It's not about me, it is about Them. It is not about me, it is about the revival of Your people [and that can be/is me, but its how I submit to Him to get there] .
So neat to see Him work on behalf of our kids. & of course that refining fire we get to go through in the journey to them =]
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