Dossier Complete!

Our dossier is done! We have it sent in and it should be sent to South Africa this next week. (for those of you who don't know what a dossier is it is basically a ton of paperwork that tells all about us, from police reports to recommendation letters. Then we get it all notarized and then we get it all state sealed.)

This whole process took longer than we were hoping. Everyone tells you it is a long process, but for some reason I still like to think that it'll be different for us. I start to think that we have some magic blessing from God that will help everything come together much smoother and faster than anyone else before us. It turns out though that God's timing, once again, is not our timing (shocking!). I was pretty discouraged last week after going to the State Capitol and realizing that we still had some paperwork we needed to get done a little differently. I feel like we had checked and double checked and still there was more to do! It's great to have friends that can remind you that God has His timing for a purpose and a lot of this whole process is out of our control . This is a good thing for me to have to deal with, because I would like to control everything and I need reminders every once in a while that God is the Lord of my life and it is better that way.

So, now we once again wait. As we wait we pray. We pray for our little girl that is worlds away from us in more ways than one. We pray for her protection. We pray for our family here that God will prepare us for this new addition to our lives. And we thank God that He is in control and not us.