Waiting for a match

Just a few thoughts to update you all on where we are in the process. Our dossier has been sent to China and is logged in. That gives us a log-in-date of March, 2009. If we were in the traditional program, waiting for a healthy infant, that would mean a 3 year wait from that date! Since we are looking for a girl up to the age of 5 with some minor physical disability we are told the average wait is one year from when our medical checklist went in. We filed our medical checklist August of 2008. So this August marks one year that we have been waiting. We are told that we could get a call any day! And every day I wake wondering if today will be the day. We know God is in control of timing. But that doesn't make it easier to wait. Knowing that there is a little girl in China who doesn't have a home and family and we wait with loving arms, can be difficult. Please continue to pray for His timing, for His protection on her and loving people around her.

About a month ago we did have an opportunity to view a file of a little 4 and a half year old girl. She had cleft lip and palate, but also had other significant problems that we hadn't said we felt able to take, such as near complete deafness. It was very difficult to look at her medical file, with numerous pictures and lots of information and then say no. As you can imagine from a mother's heart, refusing any child is hard. We really had to fall back on the fact that we had prayed over our medical checklist last August and felt God had helped us choose what we feel able to deal with. Please pray for her to find a family as I noticed she is still on the waiting child website.

We had some good news this week. Our application for a grant from Shaohannah's Hope was accepted. They granted us $4000.00 toward the adoption. We felt honored to be chosen as they had told us that they receive 100 applications a month and only 30 can be filled. It really is a blessing. Please thank the Lord for this blessing and continue to pray with us for the remainder of the funds.