Ephesians 6:13-17

Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

Monday, July 12, 2010

Where is our paperwork?!!!

Well, it is official....NO ONE KNOWS where our paperwork is. I can't go into too much detail yet, for fear that making all the details public could be detrimental somehow to our case.....I don't want to make things worse....better safe then sorry.
I will just ask you all to please pray that we can get this figured out soon! We have had some individuals working with us that have really tried hard to help us crack this mystery. The addendum and new approval letter was sent to the NVC and was expected to be wired to the embassy within 10 days....it has now been over 3 weeks and no one seems to know where our information is. We have been tossed back and forth to different people and gotten contradicting advice from all official parties involved. This is the short version of the story....there have been several days of tons of emails, phone calls only to end up each day, more frustrated. Tomorrow is a new day with a new plan at hand, so we are hoping that we can either figure this out or, that our new ideas will pan out.
We know that God knows all of this and He has the ultimate control...but we also know that we feel responsible to keep at it, otherwise our paperwork could be shoved in a pile with thousands of other cases and go unoticed for quite awhile....leaving our son to wait for us even longer. We have passed court, we are already approved! This was just supposed to be a simple, quick addendum because of the embassy changing Hailu's age.....
Then there is the "simple" court appointment in Soddo that had to take place last friday concerning Hailu's records....also a requirement of the U.S. embassy. This didn't turn out to be "simple" and we are still waiting to hear about the resolution to this.
I probably shouldn't be posting today, because I am not doing well....not freaking out, but still...not where I should be. I am at a place where I feel that I trust the Lord and His timing, but I am having trouble accepting that He may be using people's mistakes and pride and opinions to accomplish His will.....
Wow, this is hard!

3 comments:

  1. Argh...Well, I am continually praying for resolution, as I KNOW your family has. Please, Lord...Bring it quickly !!

    You just keep that INCREDIBLE, UNSTOPPABLE faith you have and He will work it all out--just as you suspect He will ( El Roi)!! His hands have been all over this adoption from day one!

    xoxoxoxoxoxo

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  2. I can't even imagine how FRUSTRATING this is for you guys. Praying for you!

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  3. Love you both! Thanks so much for the encouragement!

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