You know that when your sister messages you on Facebook and asks you how things are going for your adoption, you know that your head has been in the sand. So to update you all here it goes….
There are multiple things happening at all the same time. Right now we are:
- Preparing our paperwork and completing our visits with our caseworker from our home study company. These visits have gone well. We have one more to go next week. Once our home study is complete, we will mail it to our lawyer on the ground in Ug0. We will also turn in our home study to the US Immigration Office for approval to bring children home.
- We are preparing our dossier, that’s just a fancy word for a bunch of paperwork that proves we are good people, emotionally and financially able to care for children, and that we have every intention of notifying the Ugandan government of the child’s progress in our home and country. This is the paper work that our lawyer uses to approach the court in Ug0.
- Last but not least, we are finding our children. With over 2 million orphans, it would seem easy to find two children that would like to have parents. However, this has been the most difficult part of the process. Since Uganda only had 69 out of country adoptions last year, it seems like everyone is just getting their feet wet on how this might work. Every morning I wait for an email from an orphanage or a child advocacy organization hoping to find a referral in it. (This is the part where prayers are appreciated.)
We are learning that hope can be hard to come by for some children, especially those that are sick or those that have been separated from their siblings.
So we pray for our children everyday. We pray that God would comfort them, that they would somehow feel His peace. We pray for the wisdom and guidance of the Lord. We pray that while we wait, we would prepare our hearts, minds and lives for the joyous interruption we call children. We pray that our those caring for our children now, would be encouraged, that we will be able to love them well when we meet them in Uganda. But most of all we keep thanking God for the realization that He pursued us in the same way that we are pursing our children.
We are learning what that phrase “to be made in the image of God” means. God loved us when we were far off, when we were strangers and orphans. He pursued us, paid for us, and called us his own. How beautiful He is!
Finally, we are learning to trust Him more even when one door closes….
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