PAUSE

I realized that I haven't typed up a blog post in about a week. I've been crazy sick and mostly I just don't know what to write. Everything seems out of sorts for our family this week. I got this terrible stomach virus...like the kind you get in elementary school and you think you're gonna die. Then it turned into gastritis where I thought it was all gonna happen again two days later! I am now feeling WAY better and hopefully the medicine will help take care of that!

Some of you know that we are right at the place where we need to send in all of our homestudy documents so that we can begin planning our visits with our social worker. We are waiting on some big news that would affect our homestudy (not in a negative way, just make it different) so we have to wait until next week. We are also working on some dossier documents and our adoption education but for the same reason we cannot continue with some of the dossier documents. We are kinda at a standstill. There are definitely some things we can work on but it's like God hit a GIGANTIC PAUSE button and we're waiting on him to click it again so we can move forward. Or like when you are flying somewhere and you can't land yet because everyone else is landing and you just have to circle in that holding pattern! I have always hated that holding pattern and now I'm stuck in one! Waiting is so incredibly hard for our family. This past year has seemed like one long giant wait for lots of reasons. Of course, adoption is part of the wait...but at least we are moving towards a goal, ya know? We have things that we need to be doing and we can work at it. But now...we have to even wait on those adoption things while we're waiting on this other news!

I realize that I'm not explaining a ton here because I don't really have enough information yet to share....and well, honestly, I'm not one to throw out information until I can explain and give details. :) I just needed to write something I think to get it out of my system. So, in short, it would be awesome if you could pray for our family while we wait. We know that the Lord is good and has amazing plans for our family. Could you pray that the Lord would give us favor in this situation? That we would know something soon about which way to move? That God would be glorified in whatever happens! And that we would "Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him."

Thanks so much...even in my vagueness. :)