This past week marks 14 months of waiting to receive a referral. What a long journey this has turned in to! I feel bad that I haven’t blogged for a while. However, if I can be completely honest, I didn’t really have much to say over the past few months, except….were still waiting.
January 28th marked one year of being on the waiting list and just for fun that day I used my Africa shaped cookie cutter and made Africa cookies! They were delicious but I can promise you, they didn’t look like Africa once they baked in the oven. Haha They just looked like weird shaped sugar cookies. I should have taken a picture! We had a good laugh and enjoyed our cookies while reminiscing on all that God has done in this waiting process for us. God has answered so many of our prayers in this season of waiting from giving us patience, financially providing for the journey, to giving us people to serve and love on while we wait. We feel so honored that he has given us the desires of our heart during this time
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart Psalm 37:4
We have seen his hand at work and know that he is molding and shaping us and preparing us for this journey. We are so thankful he is in control and is the Potter and we are just the clay. “But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand.” Isaiah 64:8
In February I did a Facebook post on Feb 28th about waiting 13 months and so many people responded that they were praying for us and for our little one. Please know that we thank God for our prayer warriors and it brings our hearts so much joy to know that our baby, our babies family and their fellow orphans are being lifted up to the Lord Most High! We love you all and appreciate all the support, love and prayers during this process!
This past week on March 28th 2012, marked fourteen months of waiting to be matched with our little one. I spent the day snuggling my precious nephew, Jackson, and later on enjoyed an awesome evening of fellowship and in the bread of life with some of our dearest friends.
Some highlights of March were that we finally saw movement on the unofficial waiting list! However, we were told recently that they have extended the wait times again and that we will be waiting 18-24 months to receive a referral. Even though that is WAY LONGER than we ever expected, God knows why the delay and yet again we are trusting in his sovereignty in this whole situation. We feel pretty good to be at month 14 of waiting. If they don’t change the times again, we could potentially just have 10 more months to we see our babies face and find out whether it’s a boy or girl! To me that’s not so long when we have been on this journey for 28 months already!
As a Labor and Delivery Nurse, I get asked almost everyday from my patients if I have any children. It is what is on their heart at the time of their delivery and so God often gives me opportunities to share our adoption story. Its been such a blessing and given me many opportunities to talk about Jesus with my patients. I recently had two patients (who were back on our unit to have their second baby since we have been on this adoption journey) remember and ask me how things were going with our adoption process. I was so touched that they remembered or cared! Waiting for an adoption to take place is like a really long pregnancy without having a large belly. So when people ask or remember to pray, or just ask how we are doing while we wait in the process, it really blesses our hearts!
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