Today I was on the phone with our Costa Rica social worker and I broke down into tears. I am excited about adopting from Costa Rica and I can't wait to meet the precious child we will be matched with. I know it will be an amazing, God initiated reunion...but I can't help but think of little Zoey in China. I pray that sweet baby girl gets adopted and we have not stopped praying for her. I often wish all of that had never happened, but I know, like many of you have told me, it all happened for a reason. I am glad I know who she is. I know her birthday, her story, her struggles with walking and brain development, where the moles on her face are, the kind of shoes she wears, the cute thing she does with her wrist and her hand, what her bed looks like, what she likes to eat...I know about her love for listening to music, and all the other amazing things you get to learn about a child when you are matched with them. Zoey is a truly beautiful and amazing little girl and I we were blessed to get to know her.
Now, I know it is time to focus, not time to forget, but time to plow ahead with Costa Rica. We are looking to be matched with a little girl around 5-7 years old as Costa Rica generally tends to have older children in their orphanages. We are projecting being finished with the process on the U.S. end by June of this year. If we are matched by then we will go ahead and travel to Costa Rica but if we are not matched by that time...we wait. Wait to be matched with the child God intends us to raise up in Him and love unconditionally.
When we travel to Costa Rica we are expected to be there for 6 weeks. This is both scary and exciting for us. Fortunately we are blessed with the availability to homeschool so we will just all pick up our lives and move them to Costa Rica for a month and a half. (What a cool field trip!)
Please pray for this adoption! Pray that it continues to move along and that God will unite us soon! Pray that God will provide the funds for the adoption as well! Right now we are lacking 11,500.00 which, believe it or not, is super encouraging to us. The next few months we are going to really be gearing up to do some serious fundraising and grant letters and applications.
All in all this adoption journey has proved to be long, slow, disappointing, rewarding, fulfilling and exciting. (Extreme opposites...I know..) And we are thankful. Thankful for this opportunity. Thankful for Zoey, and Lifelines, and for what the future holds....
