We are excited because yesterday our home study was completed and we sent it in with our I600A - the document that helps a foriegn child eventually become a US Citizen and further clears us as acceptable adoptive parents. (Kenzie and Liam are holding the docs.)
It was a very weird and emotional experience as I headed over the UPS near our house to drop off this precious packet. The envelope was weighed and addressed, and as the cashier was ringing up my bill, I laid my hand on that stack of papers that would help pave the way to bring a little one who has no parents to our family. It's weird to think that papers, signatures and hours of writing (ours and our social worker's) would be a big part of what does the initial work of adoption. It seemed so simple to get it all together, and yet there is somehow power gingerly tucked inside that UPS envelope. I had to look away cuz of the tears that came to my eyes.
It's been a year since we were in Kenya, serving in Methare Valley and the Huruma slum at Mother Theresa's. Two million orphans in Kenya. Two and half million in Uganda. Those are some staggering numbers from some tiny countries! It feels such a small thing to give just one a home. At times it seems that it might be difficult and the unknowns are a bit scary to a control-freak such as myself, but is our God too small? I often see Him as too small, but He is whispering to us that nothing is impossible for Him! And we walk forward into that Whisper.
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