We had our first Homestudy visit on Sunday morning - early! But our social worker was really nice and we felt comfortable with her from the beginning! God is good!
We sat down and talked for a little less than an hour. Questions like,
"What do you children think about adopting?"
"Is your extended family and church family supportive in your decision to adopt?"
"How will the room arrangements be done?"
"What are your fears and concerns?"
"What books are you reading to prepare?"
Some of the questions we were able to answer together as a couple, and some we answered individually. The children did fabulously well playing upstairs as we answered the questions. In fact, one question she asked was if they always get along so well? Uh, well, do we have to answer that one?!
Then she walked through the house. This was my most anticipated and anxious time. As a co-director and co-manager of our house, I was nervous to see if all our hard work was going to measure up. I felt like I was going to puke, just to be honest! But, no puke was spewed, so all was spared from that embarrassing moment! It was about 5 minutes and I was hoping for her to get on her hands and knees to look under beds (usually a scary place in our house!) and open some cabinets to see how organized we were trying to be! Nope, none of that - so I guess she felt confident that our house was ready for more kiddos!
The next step is to wait and schedule our individual interviews and then have Grady possibly answer some questions. We are hoping to schedule that meeting sometime this week. It will be at a mutual location instead of our house, so the pressure is all off to keep living in a glass house! Phew - we couldn't pull that off for too long, that's for sure!!
After we do those interviews, we will wait for her report. One step closer to completing this long adoption journey, one step closer to knowing them by name like my Lord does, and one step closer to bringing them home to our family!
These last few weeks I have been rather impatient, to tell the truth! Our paperwork has been done for 3 weeks and still no call for the Homestudy. Waiting, and more waiting. Feeling like we were wasting time that my children could be coming home. However, in all of this waiting, God has been teaching me that there is a reason for all of this waiting. God is growing me in so many ways it's impossible to share all of it. As I look back at what I considered "time wasted" I saw that I wasn't relying on His timing. I was wanting to take control of it again. I am constantly reminded that, "He's got this!"
In my Sunday School class we are studying James. As we were reading through some verses, a particular couple of verses caught my eye and made me stop right in my tracks. Now, I've read these verses before, in fact they are even underlined in my Bible, however, they took a new meaning when I read them yesterday.
James 4:7-8 - Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Come near to God and he will come near to you.
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