February 17, 2009
Got up this morning and found out via an e-mail that another family in Italy wants to adopt Aleks too. It was just a short e-mail without a lot of details. Just stating just that and we need to work fast on completing our home study.
My heart sank. There were so many thoughts and emotions that started racing through my head. How could this happen? What is this family’s faith values? How did they find Aleks? Why Aleks? Does Aleks know about this? How is he feeling if he does know? Will he say yes or no to them? Does he have a say? How far is this family in their adoption process?
I then stopped just for a second, and said out loud…this is not a race. This is not “first one there gets the prize”. I had to stop and pray – “God, you totally know where we need to be and totally know where Aleks needs to be. God you know the journey and have our best interests in mind.”
I must say though, I wanted to get to the answers for all the questions running through my mind.
As the day went on, we asked a few people to pray with us. And Kevin was able to talk to Kelly and our dear friend Chris. We found out that one of Aleks’ caregivers, Santa (yes, that is her name – cool, huh?) is hopeful that Alex would be able to be with a family from America. That would be US!!!
We have given Kelly our list of “things” that we are working on over the next two weeks. Doctors visits for all of us, FBI fingerprinting, 10 hours of on-line training, and copies of marriage and birth certificates and I am sure there are other things I am not remembering right now…but, the plan is to get it all done by next week.
The dossier needs to be sent to One World Adoption Agency as soon as possible. We are trying to move as quickly as possible. And I am feeling like my head is spinning!!!
I don’t want Aleks to live anywhere else!!! I need him to be here with us. There are so many people I want him to get to know, I want to introduce him to all the people that have been praying for him on this journey. I want him to see his name on the door in the main auditorium and explain why it is there. I want him to know what a loving family is really like.
So, for this bump in the journey – I am thankful. Even if I don’t know what will happen from it. One thing I do know, “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago." Ephesians 2:10, NLT
Got up this morning and found out via an e-mail that another family in Italy wants to adopt Aleks too. It was just a short e-mail without a lot of details. Just stating just that and we need to work fast on completing our home study.
My heart sank. There were so many thoughts and emotions that started racing through my head. How could this happen? What is this family’s faith values? How did they find Aleks? Why Aleks? Does Aleks know about this? How is he feeling if he does know? Will he say yes or no to them? Does he have a say? How far is this family in their adoption process?
I then stopped just for a second, and said out loud…this is not a race. This is not “first one there gets the prize”. I had to stop and pray – “God, you totally know where we need to be and totally know where Aleks needs to be. God you know the journey and have our best interests in mind.”
I must say though, I wanted to get to the answers for all the questions running through my mind.
As the day went on, we asked a few people to pray with us. And Kevin was able to talk to Kelly and our dear friend Chris. We found out that one of Aleks’ caregivers, Santa (yes, that is her name – cool, huh?) is hopeful that Alex would be able to be with a family from America. That would be US!!!
We have given Kelly our list of “things” that we are working on over the next two weeks. Doctors visits for all of us, FBI fingerprinting, 10 hours of on-line training, and copies of marriage and birth certificates and I am sure there are other things I am not remembering right now…but, the plan is to get it all done by next week.
The dossier needs to be sent to One World Adoption Agency as soon as possible. We are trying to move as quickly as possible. And I am feeling like my head is spinning!!!
I don’t want Aleks to live anywhere else!!! I need him to be here with us. There are so many people I want him to get to know, I want to introduce him to all the people that have been praying for him on this journey. I want him to see his name on the door in the main auditorium and explain why it is there. I want him to know what a loving family is really like.
So, for this bump in the journey – I am thankful. Even if I don’t know what will happen from it. One thing I do know, “For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago." Ephesians 2:10, NLT
