my whole life i have dreamed of being a mommy. four years have gone by since we got married and nothing!!! no kids, no pregnancies, nothing. we have been looking into adoption for several years now, and i am SO excited to expand our family this way!
but now all that holds us back is money.
we have enough to do CIS/fingerprinting. but not enough to do a homestudy. oohh, or sign the contract with AGCI. which means we really can't do anything but wait. and pray of course. i am SOOOO discouraged right now because all the financial aid i have looked at requires a COMPLETED homestudy. which we don't have and can't afford!
this afternoon i laid my head down by the computer and cried! i feel so hopeless right now and yet i KNOW that God is in control and will provide all we need in His timing. so hard to tell my heart right now.
we have so much of our paperwork gathered, yet we don't want to get ahead of ourselves and have to redo things.
so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray hard for us right now! we really need encouragement, advice, MONEY, and most of all, prayer.
how can i keep from singing Your praise? how can i ever say enough? how amazing is Your love! how can i keep from shouting your name? i know i am loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing!
i can sing in the troubled times, sing when i win! i can sing when i lose my step and i fall down again. i can sing with my last breath, sing cuz i know: that i'll sing with the angels and the saints around the throne!
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See if your home study agency will let you split the price. We paid half to start and we will be giving them the last half when they are finished!!! This helped us get the ball rolling!! It is so hard to hand over the $$$ part of adoption to God but he does own it all doesn't he. I had to daily ask ther Lord to move the mountian in our lives which the mountain was money...The lord answered our prayers in less than 2 months the lord provided the money for the contracts and the money to start our homestudy!! Its was a wow moment in our live and yet here I am a month later doubting God again, see we are doing as much of the dossier as we can but there is money invloved in the dossier. But the Lord showed me the other night that when we trusted him and did our part( got all the paper work ready, and didn't just wait on him) he provided for us. SO I am doing each day one thing for the dossier and doing all that I can do and resting on the knowledge that God does gives us the desires of our hearst. Another thing God has shown me during this process is that no matter how fast or slow the adoption takes that it will be the right timing for us to get the baby that he waned us to have!!! Hope this helps!! You can email if you have any question also
gummie629@hotmail.com
If you are meant to adopt, God works out the money, and He will for you. That is what we found through our adoption of R. I know it is hard b/c right now all you want is to start the process and get that much closer to being a mom. It will happen. It is a leap of faith to even consider adopting, and He knows that you are meant to be a mom!
Hey, Sarah!
I'm so sorry you are discouraged! While I have not traveled this particular hard road for a child, Cal's pregnancy and now Hallie's have been hard roads of their own. There were many times with Cal in particular that I absolutely could not see what God was doing or even begin to fathom why He was doing it. I didn't think I could make it. But we serve a faithful God! Child or no child, He only does what is best, and there is always light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how long that tunnel is. I'll be praying for you! We love you!
Mo
thank you for your encouragement! i am trying to trust in God even in these times...i know that He is in control and will provide, but it is easy to get discouraged!
i appreciate any suggestions, and mostly i appreciate all of YOU! THANKS!
sarah
I'm more than excited to watch God work! What happens now is most definately out of our hands, but amazingly in HIS wonderful, caring hands of mercy. He loves You, Bear!! I do too!! Keep holding His hand!!
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