4 weeks

I can't believe it was 4 weeks ago already that we heard the horrible news and it's also been 4 weeks since we got back on the list for a referral. 4 weeks we have been waiting again for another child. I'm trying to be patient because I am hoping that we have gone through all of this because there is a beautiful , healthy little girl waiting to be ours forever. I just hope we meet her soon. I can only sew so much to keep myself busy. I have been walking around the house with my little flip camcorder in my pocket so I could videotape my freak out phone call. I am praying for it to come this week, but let's get real. NOTHING has happened easy or quickly for us in this whole process. When we applied to China in Aug of 07 we were told it would be about 2 maybe 3 years for a referral , then a couple months later it became 4-5 years. Then when we applied to Korea our SW told us that we could get a referral right away because we were paper ready. We only waited 7 months, however I expected to get a referral every day for the whole 7 months which was really hard. Then we got hung up with immigration for almost 3 months and then Eastern had our P3 packet for 3 months before we heard the bad news. So I am praying for it to happen this week because I just want a break. I just want something to go right and something to go quickly for us. But the reality is that nothing has so far. In the meantime though I bought some more dresses that I will post pics of later.

OK remember how I posted about how the upper room always matches whatever is going on in my life? This is getting scarry. This is the daily devotional.

LONG STRETCHES

WHEN WE THINK of all that God wants for us and for the world, it helps to remember that we’re not talking about some overnight miracle. The change that God is about continues long-term, through all the ordinary days of the ordinary time in our lives. The long stretches when nothing spectacular seems to be happening form the bulk of our days — and the time of God’s faithful, steady working in our lives. God is in this for the long haul. And, … so are we.

So I guess we'll be waiting a little longer. Guess I'll go sew so I don't have to stare at the phone.