Praise and Prayet Request of New Week

Let's praise our all amazing God first! We received news that S should be able to be placed on the registry by the end of THIS week! Our lawyer and facilitator have been hard at work making this happen. Jesus has been at work creating miracles and we are ever so thankful. Thankful isn't a big enough word to describe our gratitude. I just know He is moving mountains and letting the impossible be possible.

Next up: prayer request! This week besides asking our Lord to finalize all paperwork for registry, we need prayer so urgently that the year long waiting period for us to adopt will be somehow, someway...waived. In Ukraine, once a child is registered, they give a year for their own citizens to adopt that child. If in a year the child has not been adopted, then the child is made available for international adoption. We just don't have that kind of time with S's age. And even if we did, my baby doesn't deserve to be where he is for a day longer than he has to. So just for God to go before this lawyer and prepare the hearts of the people she will be speaking with. Let them WANT to help in every way possible and find a way to waive this waiting period so we can get our boy just as quickly as possible. Pray God speaks directly through our lawyer and facilitator to make this all happen.

This is so hard for us, but we are standing firm in our faith that God will intervene, He will create this miracle to save this child. I hear from S regularly, and he is just aching to be in our arms. We are too, baby. When I tell you he is the sweetest boy I've ever met, I mean it. I still cry for him...I just long to wrap my arms around him and take him "home" for good. To a place where he will have unconditional love, a family, a Jesus centered life, where we can work through his past, get him an education, and did I mention just love? Love can do powerful things. I love this boy something fierce, Jesus loves this boy more than I which I can't comprehend.  “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you." John 14:18.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for any and all prayers, as does my family.

<3 Danielle