Our prayers, YOUR prayers were answered!
A couple of weeks ago I told you I didn't think our dossier would make it into IBESR (Haiti's child welfare agency) before the September 15 deadline.
We've been asking God to let it happen. Despite the fact that there is no reason whatsoever that He should show any favor toward us. Despite the fact that it seemed impossible. Despite my very own fear that He wouldn't answer our prayers and I wouldn't know how to process it, I asked. Our children asked. And we reached out to you and asked you to ask Him on our behalf.
2 weeks ago our dossier left our agency in Colorado. They told us it would take a week or two to get to Haiti. 4 days later, over Labor Day weekend, our dossier made it to our orphanage in Haiti. Then it had to go through first legalization - a process that takes two to four weeks. Done in one week. From the time our dossier made it to Haiti until the time it got into IBESR, only 10 days elapsed. Friends, that is a miracle!
On September 14, one singular day before the scheduled close, our dossier made it into IBESR.
There is so much that is hard about adoption, no matter which adoption path you choose. There's grief and waiting and heartache. It just goes with the territory. And when something joyful happens - something that encourages your heart to know that HE sees and works in our lives, we can't do anything but rejoice.
I said if we made it in to IBESR before the cut off that I would give God the glory because there would truly be no other explanation. And that is what I'm here to do tonight.
Thank You, God, for getting us through to this next step. And thank you, friends, for standing beside us. We know you are supporting us and we can't wait to share with Little Guy just how you stood beside us through this process - how you advocated for him to the only One who really has any control over this process at all.
To Him be the glory tonight.
