Over the weekend, I was praying and talking to God about this crazy adoption process. It was more venting and complaining then anything else. I heard the Holy Spirit whisper to me that I wasn't really praying about the situation, I was complaining. This convicted me to the core. I began to seriously pray and ask God to move on our behalf, that things would begin to happen and fall into place. I did some spiritual warfare. After a few minutes, I felt a peace settle in my heart.
Our case has been at a stand still for a while. I've been so frustrated and disappointed! I had every reason to hope and believe that Little One would be legally mine by now. Yesterday, I got a call from the GAL. She was frustrated too. Apparently, our case, as well as several others, fell through the cracks. To get things going, she had to go over several people's head at CPS all the way to the Program Director. (I didn't even know this title existed!) We discussed several things. At the end of the call she told me she is going to push them to have our case finalized by the end of November! However, she doesn't anticipate it actually happening this quickly. She just wants them to have a fire under them. This gives me a glimmer of hope that Little One might be a Sweet by the end of the year!
I am trying to remember if I mentioned the delay on retrieving the birth certificate. Did I tell you that? Anyway, I had been told that Texas was behind in getting original birth certificates for adoption by 3-6 months. I was anticipating that we would probably be into next year before we finalized everything due to this complication. Then today I had an email in my inbox from my CASA worker telling me that CPS has Little One's original birth certificate!!!!! Hallelujah! Now, they can get her SSN and be one step closer to getting her case closed altogether.
I still am not sure when we will have our adoption court date. It would be so wonderful if it happened before her first birthday in December. However, I know it will happen at some point in time. :) I've learned though that it is fine to talk to God about how I am feeling, but when it comes down to it I need to be more intentional with my prayer life. God can and will move on our behalf. I've seen that first hand this week. I am so thankful that God heard my prayers and things are happening!
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