This is the day that God showed us our third child - a beautiful little boy waiting for us in China. He turned four in February making him 7 months younger than Jacob. When I first saw him, I immediately thought of what his life SHOULD look like. He should be a bouncing, happy little boy running around causing mischief - just like my four year old. Instead, he is languishing in a baby cage (not really - its a crib) without proper care. Of course, my heart broke for him. I showed his picture to Eman and jokingly told Eman, lets adopt him! Much to my surprise, Eman said YES! God had been working in his heart without my knowledge and without my prying (imagine that!). Eman's stipulation was that God had to drop $30k in our lap to pay for the adoption. After some gently reminders from a friend, that the money most likely will not come in a lump sum, we started to really pray about what we were supposed to do, knowing that if the answer was yes, that the money would be provided. As we found out more about this little guy, God continued to press our hearts to saying yes. About a week after, I had a vivid dream about us receiving the news that this little boy was OURS! In my dream, I cried and cried with joy. Later in the week we got current measurements as well as the information that the director had been thinking about pulling his file because he was in such bad shape. This only made me pray more. That next day, I received confirmation after confirmation that this was God's plan for our lives. Just this weekend we sent in our official application and first payment. Boy, did I have butterflies sending in that money! We are waiting on an approval of our application and the locking of his file to us. We will then have 72 hours to send in our letter of intent (LOI). (I already have this all finished except the life insurance part - eman has to call on this because they wont share any info with me. so annoying.) This is a mini dossier that is sent to China. China will then, hopefully, approve this really quickly giving us our Pre-Approval. Once that has been given, we can show pictures of him!
I got current pictures of him today and he is really small and weak. He is sitting in a baby walker thingy, with his head propped up by his hands. I dont think he is strong enough to hold his head up on his own, let alone sit up. :( He really needs his mama to hold him, rock him, sing to him and love him, not to mention feed him! I have no idea how long it will take to get him home. I am praying that the United States and China will be willing to cut the red tape and push things through faster than average. Of course, this is every expectant parents hope, but he legitimately needed help yesterday! We will most likely have a long road ahead of us with him. I pray that God will give us the strength and wisdom to take the very best road possible.
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