March 29, 2013
This past month of March consisted of more exciting steps towards
adoption. Since so many things happened I thought I would share the whole month
together in one post.
The first week in March, we received our OFFICIAL application for
the Domestic Adoption Program! Whoohoo! Once we received that significant
packet, Luke and I were eager to get started on it!! It took us a little while
to fill it out, but wanted to make sure we thoroughly put down everything they
were asking for. We excitedly submitted our application online on March 17th.
Another step checked off!! Praise God! It
was very awesome, but again a little nerve racking, knowing we are truly doing
this and putting everything we have into this process!! Luke and I have never
been in such vulnerable positions where we have completely opened our hearts to
something so unknown and so unpredictable that is completely out of our
control! Our trust is in the Lord and He is our firm foundation through this
all! We trust that if this journey is His will for our life, He will make this
path straight and known to us by being accepted and opening yet another door
through adoption.
“So then just as
you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up
in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:6-7
Soo March 20th came along and I saw online from our
portal with Bethany Christian that we got APPROVED!! PRAISE GOD!! He is soo GOOD!! I was so thrilled and wanted
to call Luke right away to tell him the exciting news!! It was a wonderful day!!! I later called
Bethany Christian to see if we needed to do any other paper work; now that was
a silly question….of course there is more!! J We got
informed that we have to fill out more documents pertaining to our family
background, fill out a bunch of different background checks, and much more! We were excited and ready to get started! I
feel like Luke and I have had a very good attitude about having to fill out all
this paper work. The more things we get done and plow through, hopefully the
sooner we will be able to get on the list!! J
The last weekend in March, Luke and I plowed through all the
documents that needed to be completed for the application. We really enjoy doing these things together and
it has been fun for us to do as a couple. The more time and effort we spend
working on adoption, the more it becomes a part of us. It is really awesome how
that works! It is so neat to see how amazing this process is on so many
different levels, through growing in our relationship and dependence with the
Lord and also growing with each other and sharing this amazing journey
together! This has truly helped us to depend on one another more than we have ever
expected thus far! On March 25th I sent out all our documents to
Bethany Christian. Yet another exciting step FINISHED!!! There will be LOTS of
exciting steps in this process and we are looking forward to each and every
single one of them!! As we wait, we commit this to prayer and that the Lord
will continue to be at work through every little detail. We look forward to
hearing what the next step is! J
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