We started our adoption process almost 2 years ago.
2 years.
January 20th of this year we got information about a little boy who (we would have no idea at the time) God would orchestrate many many circumstances to show us he is our son.
He was about 2 1/2 when we first saw his face. He's now 3 (we think) we're not 100% sure of his birthday, but we think he celebrated it this summer. :)
We hit so many walls with his paperwork. But we were not alone. The families in this process with us also have hit many walls. We've cried tears together over others mistakes, and rejoiced over small progress.
A friend of mine suggested that I write a blessings journal, because let's face it. Sometimes it's really hard to find blessings when stuff seems to fall apart or you feel completely out of control.
So I've started to write my blessings.
I've got a lot of them.
But it's pretty hard. It's hard to see and study a face for so long and know you're missing things. It's hard knowing that things are completely out of our hands, we literally have no control over what happens from here on out and the time frame in which that happens. We don't have a "due date" we can't just call up Africa and speed things up, it just doesn't work that way.
But....
Right now we do have an update though! Our paperwork finally went on it's way to our little West African country last week! This is big news because we can't officially get any of little man's official paperwork (known as the 'Article 16') until our paperwork was received by his country. So, now that it's on it's way and should be there soon, we are praying that we get his Article 16 soon.
Will you pray with us? Pray that we can receive it soon.
Also, pray for the families in front of us specifically, there are two of them. They are nearing the end and are awaiting big documents too!
We're paying big and praying bold. Please join us!
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