Roller Coaster Week

This has been a roller coaster week for our adoption and we are not off the ride yet. Tuesday we found out things were going very good in country where we are trying to adopt Mei. Wednesday the agency emailed to say our home study looked great and was looking good pending our FBI prints coming back alright. Yesterday we had a conference call with the agency and the roller coaster began a downward turn.

A lot of the work to secure Mei for us has been done apparently without keeping the ladies within at the agency in California in the loop. This, plus more communication breakdowns within their organization, have caused red flags to go up for them. They are now concerned that we have 4 children and one special needs child already (whose special need is minor and basically a non-issue at this point in his life). They are concerned we would not be able to handle Mei and his special needs. They are having a hard time understanding why we would want to adopt a child who is "unadoptable" by most standards. I truly believe if they had been in the loop from the beginning we would not be in this position today. However, I also believe the Lord is in control so I accept where we are and we continue to roll with it. So, in a few hours, our social worker will be having a conference call with the agency to go to bat for us and our ability to take care of Mei's needs. We pray this will turn the roller coaster back into an upward turn.

Sometimes, on a roller coaster, as you get about half way down the down side and the fear begins to fade you get to experience a slight glimpse of you that tells you, "Enjoy the ride! You are still on the tracks! You are going to make it through this." As Shannon and I sat around the table this morning we had one of these moments. While checking our bank account online Shannon saw where the check we wrote the FBI for our background checks had finally cleared the bank. Hopefully this means they are finally processing our prints. In that moment I felt the Lord saying, "Enjoy the ride! Don't fear the ups and downs that come along the way. I've got this under control. You're still on the right track - my track!"

Thank you Father! We trust you! Always!

Our friend Tinsley just showed us this video from Building 429 - what a fitting song and the video actually is dealing with a woman who lost her son and adopts another (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LTfueFPpM). Wow - the Lord continues to speak to us...