To adopt from Peru has been our plan from the beginning...I mean 15 years ago, beginning...since the first year of our marriage. Living in Lima, as in many parts of the world today, you see abandoned children everywhere...we committed from the start that, if the Lord was willing, we would take at least one of those little ones home. So here we are, all these years later, 10 days away from the official assignment meeting of the Peruvian Adoptions Committee.
It's possible it will mean absolutely nothing to us...or it could be the day the Lord reveals to us the name of the child He has picked for us. You see, we haven't even been officially accepted by the Peruvian government yet. They had our paperwork for 3 months and then came back with more questions. We've answered those questions and now they're evaluating us again. IF they get back to us this next week and IF they say yes we're in, THEN we will immediately request a little girl whose file we have seen and who we believe the Lord has placed on our hearts. In the official assignment meeting on July 24th they would consider our request and (as God guides them) either accept or deny it.
So in the meantime we pray the Lord will do His work in all 5 of us preparing us for what He is calling us to...and we send an e-mail or two hopefully at the right time, in the right tone, so they remember we're alive and waiting but don't think we're pushy and obnoxious (it's a fine line). And we pray that today we'll be content and faithful in the tasks He's called us to now...and at the same time picture a little unsmiling face in black and white and wonder if we'll have the privilege of calling her ours.
Even so, more than ours, we long for her to be His...hence our blog name:
Fourth for His glory!!
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