Adoption News

I don’t do this often here, but another milestone, another Ebenezer has been raised in the saga of the Smith adoption.

So, I think we signed the last document necessary on this side of the Atlantic prior to becoming guardians and eventually parents of three beautiful children. Those documents shipped and should arrive in Africa on Tuesday, 11/9/10.

Now, I don’t know what to do. We’ve been in the adoption process for so long and had so many obstacles to overcome that I am a little afraid to trust that we might actually be on a plane before the end of the year. If that happens, being true to form, we’ll be away over Christmas. I never thought I might miss a Christmas morning in order to make this whole thing happen, but God is definitely trying to mold and shape us as parents, as a married couple, and as His kids for something else and maybe many something elses with the ultimate something else being Home. Not to mention God is shaping our children through this whole ordeal as well. So, while I don’t want that to happen, and will pray that we are home by Christmas, we’ll do whatever He has designed.

Part of being God’s Kid isn’t that we figure everything out, but that it all makes sense in retrospect. We trust and follow, and then we get to make sense out of it all. For everyone else you just live with regret, shame, failure, and disappointment. A multitude of time and energy is wasted on determining where to place the blame and then seeking vengeance. Praise God we can be free from that struggle.

“11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people.12 It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, 13 as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.” – Titus 2 NET