On Wednesday morning, Adam came downstairs during my prayer
time and interrupted me to show me an e-mail from one of our adoption agency
workers, Debra, who is currently in
Kinshasa. The e-mail was very exciting
news and a long awaited answer to prayer ….I will be able to share a little
more soon, I hope J I praised the Lord for his faithfulness and
love for his children and was just overwhelmed with joy!
Then about thirty minutes later, Adam went outside to get
the mail that we had neglected to get the previous day and there was a “Request
for Evidence” letter from the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. This letter detailed that we need ten more
documents from the DR Congo regarding our daughter’s adoption and orphan
status. All ten of these documents need
to be obtained, translated into English and mailed to USCIS by March 3rd or
the letter states her adoption will be denied.
I immediately began to pray because I felt like this was going to be
impossible! We have learned over the
last twenty months that “African time” is much different than “American time”
and I just felt like the time frame was going to be impossible to meet. Well, Adam took the letter to work to scan
and send to our adoption agency and I stayed at home with the kids. I sat down on the couch with them and Eva
wanted to pick out her Bible story from her “Jesus Storybook Bible” for the
morning so she flipped to a story in the Old Testament and asked me to read
it. I looked down at the Bible and began
to smile when I saw she picked the story entitled, “God makes a way.” This is the story of God parting the Red Sea
from Exodus 14-15. We got to the part in
the story where God’s people are on the shore, in front of the sea, and Pharaoh’s
army is behind them and they have nowhere to go and the story says…
“…they did the only thing there was left to do – PANIC!
“We’re going to die!”
They shrieked.
“Don’t be afraid!” Moses said.
“But there’s nothing we can do!” they screamed.
“God knows you can’t
do anything!” Moses said. “God will do
it for you. Trust him. And watch!”
I did the same thing they did and I heard God tell me the
same thing Moses told them…trust and watch.
Adam called a little bit later to tell me that he had
e-mailed the letter to Debra in the DR Congo and she said that our attorney was
with her and he was going to get started on obtaining the documents today!
I thank God for many things…first that we received a bit of
encouraging news before the bad news J I am thankful that Debra is in the DR Congo
and could get the information to our attorney immediately! And I am thankful that God gave me his peace
through a story I have read many times before but needed to hear again
yesterday morning.
God knows that we need these documents to bring her home and
I know that he is the only one who can make this happen. Please join us in praying that God will
provide everything we need to bring her home.
Lynsey
