It was probably 2 weeks ago that we learned he would not be our son. It was just a weird way to find out. The social worker from the agency wrote us and said, "Well, I have good news, the orphanage wants to work with you!" We were floored! It seemed unreal that this would actually be happening, that we had already seen the face of our son and that we knew his name. We wrote the worker and asked her for clearer details. Since he is in the Congo we knew we had to wait until we were married 5 years (July '12) and so we asked her if we would be able to travel to get him, say, in August. She wrote us back and said that we actually wouldn't be able to do anything but submit our dossier until the end of July (so the 8-9 month process would start then) and the orphanage didn't want to make him wait that long so we wouldn't be allowed to adopt P. This is totally understandable, and so good for him. This means that he will have a family much sooner than he would if we were to proceed with adopting him. That is what I truly wanted, was for him to have parents. But in reality, the orphanage doesn't want to work with us early, and I sincerely wish she would have told us everything first. Kind of felt like we were being strung along. Oh well. What are you going to do?
We decided we need to start the Uganda or Ghana program through a different agency. This is a longer process but we can start it now so it will probably end up being about the same length of time as it would be if we adopted through the Congo. The only thing holding us back is that both countries require a 5-6 week travel time. We need to know if UPS will allow this length of absence. Need to know soon! Please pray with us.
On another note, I started a prayer jar at home. It sits on our kitchen table so each time we sit down to eat and say Grace, we pull out a strip of paper that has a prayer request on it! We've done this for about a week now and we enjoy it because it reminds us of things that we may not always think of, but we should definitely remember from time to time. We even have one that says "don't ask for anything, but thank God for 5 things!" When I first started out I think I had 10 strips of paper and thought this would be plenty. Then the Lord reminded me of so many families, ministries, illnesses, etc. and 5 minutes later I was finished writing :)
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