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We are DTC! In adoption lingo that’s dossier to China. I’m so excited! It will take about 3 days to get to China. Then we will be waiting for a LID–log-in date. That’s when the countdown officially begins. Right now the wait from log-in date to receiving a referral is 17 months. But it could get shorter. We’re hoping that it will anyway.
Changing the subject–I have a wonderful book that my dear friend Angie gave to me this spring. It’s called The Divine Hours: Prayer for Springtime. The idea of the book is to help you connect with God throughout the day instead of expecting one daily quiet time to last for the whole day. There are reading for morning, noon, evening, and bedtime. The readings include prayers, mostly from the Book of Common Prayer, psalms, other scripture readings, and sometimes hymns. The following is a petition including at the end of every bedtime reading.
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ, give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s sake. Amen.
Okay, I’ve decided to post more regularly since I’ve had some complaints. Only you’re going to have to put up with my musings as there will not be a lot of news on the adoption front for a while after we send our dossier to China, hopefully very soon.
In our small group on Sunday nights Tommy has been leading us through the video series Epic from Ransomed Heart Ministries. Last night was on Act Four: The Kingdom Restored. I had a wonderful and much-needed reminder of what we have to look forward to.
And they lived happily ever after.
Stop for just a moment, and let it be true. They lived happily ever after.
These may be the most beautiful and haunting words in the entire library of mankind. Why does the end of a great story leave us with a lump in our throats and an ache in our hearts? If we haven’t become entirely cynical, some of the best endings can even bring us to tears.
Because God has set eternity in our hearts. Every story we tell is our attempt to put into words and images what God has written there, on our hearts. Think of the stories that you love. Remember how they end.
Then Aslan turned to them and said, “You do not look so happy as I mean you to be.”
Lucy said, “We’re so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.”
“No fear of that,” said Aslan. “Have you not guessed?”
Their hearts leaped and a wild hope rose within them.
“There was a real railway accident,” said Aslan softly. “Your father and mother and all of you are–as you used to call it in the Shadowlands–dead. The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.”
And as he spoke he no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before. (C. S. Lewis, The Last Battle)
(John Eldredge, Epic)
To anyone who happens to be reading this morning, please pray for my dear friend, Angie. God has called her to minister to homosexuals and people struggling with same-sex attraction. She has a passionate heart for this ministry and will be speaking at a Christian workshop in Tulsa this morning.
O Most High God, please be with Angie this morning. Prepare her heart to be used by you. Let her words be your words. May her words speak what’s in your heart, O God. Send your angels to fight for her to remove any obstacles that may come her way. Protect her from any attacks from the enemy. Prepare the hearts of the people who will be listening to her. May they listen with their hearts and hear you speaking to them. God, I pray they we all may learn to see each person as you see them and may we be Christ to them.
For anyone interested Angie’s blog is:
www.angiesaim.squarespace.com
Sorry to those of you who check here regularly. There’s mostly been a lot of waiting going on, and after our dossier gets to China there will be a whole lot longer period of waiting going on.
So this is what’s happening right now. Tommy updated you on get our approval from immigration. Then we sent everything to the Chinese Consulate in Houston, TX. They sent everything back to our social worker last week, and everything was approved except for one document which has to go back through being notarized and sent back to Houston. This should not take too long. After we get that everything goes to China. Yea!!!!!
Thanks to everyone who’s been following us and praying for us on this journey.
Kim
When Love Takes You In – Steven Curtis Chapman
We were losing hope of getting everything done by May 1st. As Kim posted, we had some encouraging news and contacted one of our US Senators to see if he could be of help. I remember the first time I saw Thad Cochran in person. We were at a fund-raising dinner about 14 or 15 years ago and he was impressive then. He also was wearing the best looking suit I have ever seen. Strange fact, I know, but it’s true.
We received a letter yesterday from him saying that he was glad to try to assist in this matter and would let us know as soon as he heard back from Homeland Security.
Today, Kim heard from the social worker that did our home-study. She was in touch with someone at the office which has our form waiting approval. They said it was approved yesterday and was on its way to us.
Coincidence?
I doubt it.
Can a little girl have Thad for a middle name?
Thanks to Senator Cochran and his staff for their attention and assistance!
One step closer to Rachel.
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