Tuesday, December 21, 2004

December 21 2004 - bureaucratic red tape type stuff

Today we learned that our dossier is STILL being translated, and that we made out the cashier's check incorrectly to "embassy" rather than "consolate". Gotta dot those "T"s and cross those "I"s. God's time.

Wednesday, December 8, 2004

December 8 2004 - we prayed for a clear answer...

Angel is in Florida, finishing the renovations on our rental house in Ocala. This morning, Joanne (the CASA worker) called Angel, and told her that the Grandmother of these two girls in Gainesville GA had decided to choose another family to adopt Brook & Mandy. She said she did not want her grandkids raised in the city, but rather on a farm in the country. We're a bit numb at the moment, since we weren't given the opportunity to even meet with the grandmother. We have lots of questions, but the decision has been made, and we have to now accept this as God's plan. It still hurts, even though this whole idea came and went in less than 4 weeks.

God is still good: we prayed that God would provide a very clear direction concerning this opportunity, and He has done just that.

If you haven't already, please read the Dec 6 update, James 4:13-17 and Proverbs 16:9. Truly, Angel and I had come to think that we very well might adopt 7 year-old Mandy and 11-year old Brook, even looked forward to it. How hard is it to NOT come to want something like children when an opportunity so close to home comes your way? I've written it several times in this blog, and will write it again: we have absolutely no control whatsoever over this whole process. It is 100% in God's hands, and God is good. Doesn't make it any easier to just say "ok" and move on.

Monday, December 6, 2004

December 6 2004 - trust and obey

James 4:13-17 - Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. 17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

Proverbs 16:9 - In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.