It has been a while since my last post! We havent really received any new news from our orphanage! If we chose to stay on the waiting list it could be up to 2-3 years! Me being me I got curious and started looking at the waiting child list in Taiwan. I do this quite often and it totally ruins my day! The thought of those sweet children just living in an orphanage with no family is very hard for me To think about. Anyway, in my browsing I found myself feeling very drawn to a certain little boy. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and the information on his severity was extremely limited. We have prayed about special needs and are totally comfortable with it as long as we can financially afford to give a child every possible chance at a healthy, happy life. We had our pediatrician look over this little guys information and he really had NO CLUE as to what we could expect?? There are doctors that specialize in international adoption and we considered having one look at these files but it was about $700 just to review the file. We kind of felt at this point that maybe that was our answer? I havent been able to stop thinking about this little guy and I pray for him regularly. Yesterday a friend(the only friend in the adoption world that i have told anything about this little boy) messaged me and said that she is in a private group on Facebook and saw a post about this very little boy that I have been praying for. It was a post from a couple of different families that had also viewed his files, and had sent them to the International adoption specialist to be reviewed. After deciding to adopt a different child they were offering to other families the international adoption docs report(worth $700) on this little guy!! My first question is what are the chances that the one friend that I have told about him being in a private group and seeing this post and notifying me? My second question is, Ok, God what are you trying to tell us? Maybe God wants this little boy to be apart of our family and maybe He doesnt?? We will only find that out in time. One of the families that had reviewed his files sent me am email last night and the ONE big worry that I have had about adopting him(affording healthcare for him) she summed up the answer in one statement.....God does not call the equipped, He equips the called! Wow! How very true! I feel like the Israelites. I have seen Him work miracle after miracle in our last adoption however I am still questioning Him. When will I ever learn to just trust Him and be content in whatever His answer is to us! Please just pray for us as we PRAY, PRAY, and PRAY some more about this situation. We do NOT want to move ahead out of emotion. We truly only want what God has for us. Who knows what is to come next???!!!
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:21:21 +0000