Marching Forward!

We are pressing forward! Finally today we have been able to seal up the envelope to send in our home study paperwork. Lily had the easiest job of us all ... she put it in the mailbox! This part of our journey took a little longer than we had hoped for but it is done. We now are in the waiting game of our social worker receiving it, reviewing it and setting up our next interview.

You really learn a lot about yourself writing your own autobiography. You learn a lot about your marriage as well. It forces you to really think about your role as a spouse and the things that you love about your spouse that you can sometimes take for granted. It was fun to drive down memory lane about our "courtship" too. I am so proud of David. For those of you that know David well, you know that he is an extravert and would rather be talking to someone rather than writing his thoughts and feelings down.


We have been on this journey now for almost 80 days. It's been an amazing ride thus far. Some days better than others but we are always thankful to our heavenly father in all circumstances. We know that we are in HIS grip and this journey is HIS story. HE is already teaching us so much. I am definitely learning to focus my entire being on HIS living presence. A verse that has been consistently coming up in my life is Matthew 6:33-34 " But Seek first HIS kingdom and righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." I catch myself wanting to jump too far ahead in the process by worrying about how are we going to to do this or do that! David constantly reminds me that "we" are not going to do anything! God is in control and we must seek HIS great wisdom and rest in the comfort of HIS presence knowing he will meet our needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus (Phil 4:19).

We are praying with expectancy that God will provide for the next step. Many of you have asked about how the fundraising is going. God has been so good to provide exactly what we have needed to pay for the first step which is the home study. Our next step is paying our deposit to the agency, and some miscellaneous fees to pay for the dossier, etc. That amount is around $3500. We are anticipating that we should get our approval to adopt in December. Would you join us in prayer that we could raise this money over the next month to be ready to move forward as quickly as possible?

Remember to pray for our sweet child(ren) in Haiti and that we can meet them soon!

In HIS grip,

Cindy