Today marks the five month anniversary of the meeting with our social worker Faith to update our domestic home study to an international home study. First thoughts were that our completely updated and approved home study would be to the USCIS office by October and that our dossier would be to America World and Ethiopia by Thanksgiving or for sure by the end of 2008. However, the home study is still waiting to be approved by the state of Illinois. Needless to say between that disappointment, the other challenges in our life at present, and how long we've been waiting for a child, we are feeling a bit defeated. HOWEVER, we are having cheesecake tonight in honor of the five month and counting home study wait so that it is not a totally sad day.
PRAISE AND PRAYER: A huge praise for our family, friends, and small group who are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO supportive of us and continue to beseech the Lord on our behalf. We could not keep going without them. Please pray that we would feel hope that this is what God has called us to do. Please pray that Amy would have the desire to take the adoption crate out of the closet where she put it just for a little while. Please pray that we would have the desire to read through the new guidelines and begin to redo several pieces of paperwork.
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Praying you will have the encouragement you need this week! This is a long and hard journey, especially when things like this happen.
with love,
Anna (AWAA)
Praying that God would use this time of waiting. That it not just be time going by and useless waiting, but that God continue to prepare your hearts for the huge gift He has for you. I pray that you would feel His presence through the journey, and that at the end of it you could look back and praise Him for such a sweet time to grow in your love and trust for HIM. On my knees for you! Heather Venuti
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