Praying over mail?

So I've never prayed over pieces of mail that I've sent until this adoption process. Praying that God would protect my very valuable pieces of dossier documents. If they got lost or damaged, I would need to start over and I would have a breakdown. A serious one. 

So, once again, this morning I prayed over our last (hopefully) package sent to our agency containing the last half of our dossier. Trusting God will protect them while in route to CO! 

I will celebrate when I hear they made it to their destination and that we get word that everything is correct! 

Faith

Didn't want the feeling of this moment to pass before I could quickly type a blog entry about what just happened...

I just retrieved the mail and found a check for adoption costs that will cover our next group of fees, that will be due next week when we turn in our remaining dossier documents. 

Overwhelmed right now of God's faithfulness. He is providing. I knew He would, but sometimes moments like this hit me like a brick of emotions. His timing, although sometimes confusing to me, is impeccable. Just a reminder for me today, to just keep on trusting and fixing myself on Him, and the rest will take care of itself. Ahhh... God, You are so good. 

Verse from last night rings so true-

"Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." Hebrews 11:1

We are approved!

Yesterday we received a very important piece of mail... Our USCIS approval of us to adopt from China! So excited. We have 5 documents to "seal" over the next 2-3 weeks and then our few remaining items will be sent to our agency for dossier review. Yay! Not much longer!

Long-Overdue Update

Sooo much has happened since my last post. I keep putting off another post, and the updates are getting longer and longer.

On the adoption end:
We had fingerprints made at the USCIS office on March 11. We are still waiting for that little (but oh so important) piece of mail to arrive that says we are approved to adopt. Once that arrives, we'll have a few more items to notarize, seal, and get to CCAI. That and some photographs should complete our dossier!

Jason quit his job at the bank on March 14. He has started his own lawn maintenance/landscaping business. After much praying and feeling led to do this, it has been a huge step of faith, and I have loved watching the Lord provide work for him. It has truly been awesome to watch. Prayers are being answered and I am so excited to see what the future holds for his business. More on this to come!

And lastly, the big news is out that we are PREGNANT!
I was completely taken by surprise on this one. God's timing is crazy sometimes. I really thought (and maybe because it sounds good to MY plans) that He was holding off a pregnancy, because of the adoption. I was hoping one day, after adopting, we could have another child. God saw differently, and thought now was a good time. It looks like we'll be pushing the adoption back some. I have no idea what this will look like in terms of timing!
We are due the end of September. Anne Riley will be 3 y/o by then. I am almost to the 15 week mark. We have had 2 great sonograms so far, with another scheduled for the 16 week mark. Everything is going smoothly, praise the Lord!
We are so excited about this new little creation. Feeling so so blessed.
I do have to be honest though... at first, after the shock, I had to go through some weird feelings... and I still do. I very much LONG for my Chinese baby. When you are in the process to adopt, it can be compared to being pregnant with that child. You dream, pray, think about that child constantly. I am sad that I can't get him home sooner than we had planned. But, I know that God has a certain child chosen for us already, and the timing of this pregnancy, will not change any of that. We will have to be patient and wait on the Lord.

I am excited about our future. We have a LOT going on! That is all for now :)