Remember how I said that I couldn't pray for a little boy to get to one of the orphanages so we could adopt him?
And remember how it was going to be another 2-10 months, minimum, before we would receive our referral?
That was all wrong.
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Our little boy was there the entire time.
Little Boy (what we're going to call him here) was there all the time.
A lot of changes have been happening in Haiti and after the last "announcement" of changes we received a phone call from our agency on a Tuesday. Never happened before. We haven't gotten a phone call from them yet and the person we've been working with doesn't work on Tuesdays.
So when I got a phone call saying, "Karyn, call me back. I need you to call me back today" on a TUESDAY, I was sure it was over for us.
Instead what I heard was, "I think we have a little boy for you."
Husband and I listened on speakerphone as we learned about 1 minute of information about a little guy who one day could become our son. And we received a handful of pictures.
That's the information you receive when you get your referral, or child match. And you need to decide.
This decision felt easy for us. A couple of months ago we were told about 2 little guys that had significant medical needs and a set of siblings. We prayed and thought and cried and prayed some more, but there just wasn't any peace with any of those children, as horrible as that sounds, and as horrible as it is even for me to type.
We didn't feel like God had called us to any of those children.
But, we feel He's calling us to this one.
This could still fall apart for many different reasons. Some of those reasons I know right now. Some of them I'll learn in the future. Some I may never know. It's scary.
But, I have to trust that God did indeed give us the right referral at the right time and I'm going to trust that He will get us through if it doesn't work out, for any reason.
Right now we are joyful. We have a picture to look at and a name to pray for and an orphanage to focus on. We have specific prayers we can pray for his health and safety, that will apply whether or not he ever gets here. We have someone to look forward to meeting. And that is wonderful.
"He made from one
man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth,
having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their
habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for
Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him
we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said,
‘For we also are His children.’" (Acts 17).
