WOW

January 13, 2011

WOW! That is about the only word that can even begin to come close to the emotions I am feeling right now. I am in awe of a God who loves me so much in spite of who I am!

So, here is the WOW!!!! Over the weekend, I was really looking on the adoption websites at the children on the special waiting lists. (I had plenty of time on my hands because we locked ourselves in at home because Matthew had the flu and we were trying to get him better and not spread it to anyone else. He had a fever of 103.9 which really scared me. Thankfully he rebounded quickly and is great now!!!) Back to the story...

I couldn't find a waiting child list on our adoption agency's site. So, Monday I emailed the contact for adoptions from Korea. She passed my info along to the contact over the waiting children. I received an email from her Monday afternoon and I replied asking if I could speak with her to gain more info. She kindly called me Tuesday (yesterday) morning and we were having a nice conversation about if Mike and I should fill out another form in regards to what special needs we would consider. I then said, "Well, we did get the call about that little girl on Dec. 20th." She replies, "Which little girl is that?" I told her the info I knew about the baby and she replied. "Well, the first 2 families that reviewed her file decided not to adopt her." Hold up, "I AM NUMBER 3!!!!!!" Anyway, WE ARE NUMBER 3!!!!!!! After I explained to the kind lady what I meant by my craziness, we concluded Mike and I are the next family in line to review the sweet baby girl's file. The sweet baby girl on December 20th, could be my Anna Grace!! We are consulting with a pediatrician at Vanderbilt from the International Adoption Clinic about her medical needs but my brother and sister-in-law (Both pediatricians) have already reviewed her medical records and feel good about our adopting her!!! All I can still say is WOW and thank you to an AMAZING God!

Mike and I have had the conversation several times now about what would I do if this doesn't work out? And we have applied the same question to him about his new business. What if swingpal.com doesn't work out? How will we react?? We have both decided from the out set that we WILL still LOVE and PRAISE our Heavenly Father because HE is good ALL of the time even when we don't see it.

Anyway, We need prayers of discernment and wisdom on our adoption. I will continue to strive to wait well!!

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3:20