Jacob

I actually just posted a draft I had from months ago.  So much has happened and been on the rocks that it sometimes never seems to be sure enough to post an update.  Not sure if that sentence made sense but hopefully you understand.

We left Children of All Nations.  There were a few reasons and if anyone wants more details I could try to offer them personally, but we felt a little uneasy.  But probably not uneasy like you're thinking, we felt uneasy about our son and where he was, we just weren't sure we were supposed to be with CAN anymore.  We started finding people using DRC Adoption Services, an independent adoption consulting service.  I could also give you more information about this and why we knew we were safe and trusted them.  Amazingly, they have children waiting for families, not families waiting in line for children.  There are so many orphans in DRC.  As one new facebook friend encouraged, "Lindsey, there are way to many orphans to wait 2 years."  So, we were uneasy.  Not a complete peace anymore and we researched and researched.  We told DRCAS we were signing up with them and 2 days later we saw our little boy's picture.  Those big brown eyes, squishy little cheeks and striped Opie  (that's for you, Mom) shirt.  He was the one.  If we had not switched to DRCAS, he wouldn't have been in our requested age range if we stayed with CAN, not to mention he wouldn't have been available to CAN.

That Sunday we heard a sermon in church talking about taking steps of faith, and boy was this one.  The nail was hit on the head when he said, "sometimes you have to roll the stone away to see the gift of your step of faith" (referring to moving the stone from Jesus' tomb-must have sounded CRAZY!)

So we did and he is ours and we will call him Jacob :)-anyone catch the Nemo reference? haha...  We still appreciate your prayers as there are always things that can go wrong. We think it will be wonderful to have him home by January (we were told a general 6 month timeline, which would put us at Feb).  But at this point, just knowing it is happening is amazing.  Seeing his face is overwhelming.

Want to know who his biggest fan is?  Julia.  I have seen her multiple times go up to someone on our street and say, "mmm baby brutter!"  with the reply, "oooh!?  You have a baby brother?"  Julia will say, "mmhmmm!  be right back."  Then she will run into the house, get his picture and proudly display it to whomever will look.  She's also asked for my phone to show the wallpaper pic if we aren't home.   It warms my heart.  That little girl is just too much.  My heart overflows!

Things we've learned:
adoption is hard.  it rarely goes easy.
God is in control and He will show you the path in His timing, and it isn't always straight!
I must continually pray to fall in love with his timing.
Those little nudges? Listen to them.