WOW!

Sorry it's been so long! Summer began at our house and our days have been filled with swimming, swinging and softball games! The summer is flying by and although I am excited that it means we are a little closer to bringing our newest addition home, I am also trying to slow down and savor the moments I have with my two little guys already here!

So on the adoption front, this is where we are...

The DR of Congo began issuing exit visa's again on June 27th...PRAISE GOD! That was a great day in our house! Adam called me around 10 pm to let me know that our adoption agency had just sent an e-mail letting us know...thank you so much for praying for this!

Our paperwork has been submitted to the DR of Congo government and we are waiting, again :-) I am not allowed to give any more details about little "E" on the blog until she officially becomes ours so I will let you know more when I am allowed. Stay tuned....

This is a funny little thing that happened recently...

So we went to see our financial advisor for our "yearly checkup" last week. He always sends us a list of things we need to bring with us, bank statements, retirement account statements, mortgage statement, any other debt statements, last year's tax return, etc. We gave him the information as soon as we sat down in his office and he said, "Let me take a look for a minute..." The first sheet of paper was our checking and savings account statement and he said, "Ok, this is your checking and your emergency fund, I guess?" We said, "It’s our checking and savings account, we have another money market account that we use as our emergency fund and we also have our adoption money in there." He said, "Oh" and he flipped to the next page which was the money market statement and his eyes got really big and he looked up at us and then looked back down at the statement and then looked back up at us and said, "How on earth did YOU GUYS save up that much money?!?!" This struck me as really funny! We laughed and then said, "People gave it to us! Then we quickly corrected that to, God gave it to us!" He really just kept staring at us...he actually put his hand on top of his head at one point and shook his head! He said, "People just gave it to you?" We responded with a couple of examples..."God gave us an extra $8,000 this year in various ways, we made over $5,000 in yard sales with stuff people donated to us, people from high school and college sent us money and donated things for the yard sale, friends, family, acquaintances, people we barely knew sent us money...it has been AMAZING to see God work it all out!" He sat there for a few seconds and then just said, "Wow!"

Wow is right! I have decided that although this past year has been difficult with all of the ups and downs and stress of the adoption, I would not ask for anything to have happened any differently. I have been able to see miracle after miracle after miracle performed by God and this process has increased my faith tremendously. There are things that I do not understand but I trust that God is in control and he knows how all of this will work out. I pray this same thing will happen for every person that reads this. If you feel like God is asking you to do something much bigger than you are capable of doing, DO IT ANYWAYS!!! And then stand back and watch how He works it out :-)