Last night I prayed a small prayer. Not my regular "miracle" prayers (a.k.a. may the Judge feel so sad about not hearing our case before she left on vay-k, that she returns guilt ridden to grant our adoption.....) but just a small prayer. It went like this "God, we just need a small break. One that starts us moving in the right direction, just a tiny break" I was too exhausted to plead, bargain, and scheme in the fashion my prayer life has been heading lately. Well, God answered my prayer today.
We received an e-mail from our case manager. Good news! It appears that our region is now beginning to thaw! They have begun accept new families and are registering Dossiers again. Our case manager said that now we just wait for the Judge's return (we think at the end of this month) and then plead our case to be heard again, which in theory should work because if you are taking new cases and registering new dossiers, you would have some serious back log if you weren't processing some people through. (People like us!)
Hallelujah! Not only is our God the God of miracles, He is the God of small breaks too....
Praying for you and a break that has our Father's hand print all over it!!
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Hello. I just started to follow you guys and thought I would post to let you know I feel your pain. My husband and I met our son in June of 2008 and didn't get a court date until November of 2008. The wait was horrible! I can tell you that he finally came home in December and is doing great. We are even crazy enough to do this all over again. We just got assigned to the Vologda region to adopt a little girl.
ReplyDeleteI will be following and hoping you get a call by the end of the month!
Lisa
Awesome! Can't wait to hear about your good news soon!
ReplyDeleteSo excited to hear this, we're continuing to pray for you all.
ReplyDeleteYEA! So happy to hear things are going to start moving again.
ReplyDeleteHoping you hear something very soon!
ReplyDeleteWoo hoo! So very glad to hear this...I may or may not have tears in my eyes.
ReplyDeleteIt just shows that God answers the smallest prayer and awards us with the mightest blessings. I can almost feel Charlie in my arms. Your "big" break is on the way. Praise the Lord! Our prayers go up many, many times a day that the Judge sees what awesome parents you will be and let Charlie come home soon! Love ya, Momma
ReplyDeleteI love that line "our God is a God of small breaks too!" You are so right!
ReplyDeleteThank you God for small prayers answered! Now a small prayer for a quick court date!
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