Adoption Day 22
OH NO! ‘Our’ kids may not be available!
I sent an email to the US Director of the Children’s Shelter of Cebu, telling him about seeing the 5 children on the website, reading all about them, looking at their pictures and us wanting to adopt them. He was excited about that, but then said that they may be placed with another family. It was devastating to us – even though we actually know little about them and they have never heard of us. We’re not going to give up. I am not giving up hope that they will still be available for adoption when our paperwork gets far enough along. Each of us in our family were drawn to them immediately. I will continue to pray multiple times every day that God will bring them home to us – yet we will have to accept His will if it doesn’t happen. We need to trust, yet obey. He knows what is best for them. Please pray with us that it will happen.
It is a terrible thing to get excited about something (before you really should) and then have the possibility of it being taken away (when you don’t even have it, or are not entitled to it). We really should NOT have looked at any children until our paperwork was complete and we knew more about how the children are chosen. We put ourselves in this situation. Or maybe God is testing us? That’s what Brenda thinks. That this is a test.
I’ve heard from most people who have adopted that the process is painful. For us, it hasn’t been that bad – all 22 days if it so far. sure, we’ve been frustrated at the slow process and the amount of paperwork, but overall, it’s not far from what I expected. We’ve heard about how long and drawn out the process usually takes. We’ve heard about many of the last minute things that can come up when finalizing the adoption. We’ve also seen our friends adopt the four children from Colombia in under 5 months. I suppose everyone’s story is just a little different, even how the the same struggles can affect each of us in different ways. God won’t give us more than we can handle (with His help) and this won’t be any different. We’ll just need to accept what His will is – which will likely be wht’s best for those 5 precious children.
