- 11/8/2007 5:48:50 PMSweat, Prayers, Tears, and FedExAs of today, our dossier is on it's way to Madison via FedEx to be apostilled. We have sent previous documents to Madison and they are so efficient that we got them back in 2 days. Today being Thursday, we are hoping to get the documents back next Monday. If that is the case, then they will go to Michigan and then off to Moscow sometime next week.
This is an important day. That envelope represents and contains a tremendous amount of agonizing prayer, stress, tears, sweat and $320. I told Peggy, "I want to get a picture of this." She asked, "why?". Here's why: this is the last part of the preliminary work on our end. From here on out, the journey is in someone else's hands. Today marks the beginning of "the waiting game". We wait for a court date.
Of course, even before day one - everything has been in the Lord's hands. These last months have been an exercise in "keeping your eye on the target" and "trusting in the Lord". There are a million one-liners I could use to describe today. The bottom line is that we have reached a new plateau in our spiritual walk.
I was reading today in Habakkuk 2 where the Lord is telling the prophet to write down what He is about to tell him. Habakkuk is to put it on tablets so that a herald may run with it. "...For it awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay."
Of course the message God has for Habakkuk is not related to the adoption but it made me think of the contents of the envelope, what they represent, and the fact that we are waiting on an appointment. All of our efforts will not prove to be in vain. That package of 32 papers represents a small portion of God's will coming to life. Even though there are a couple of people I know who are opposed to what we are doing and how we are doing it, I am confident we are in the center of God's plan and no person or force is going to thwart that.
