Here is it, the Christmas season. Long lines, people hustling and bustling from here to there, and children wait in anticipation for December 25th. You can just see the expectation in children's faces as December comes close. There is something truly magical about this time of year for a child. We, like children around Christmas, are greatly expectant. We are yearning for a day that we do not know the date of however. But we do hope it will be soon.
At this point in the adoption process, our anticipation is met with more anxiety as we want to know whether we have been chosen to be parents to these 2 children whose photo we have been looking at and falling in love with since the end of June. We yearn to meet them and get to know everything about them, their likes and dislikes. None of this can happen until the Philippines tells us they have chosen us as the best choice to be parents to this boy and girl.
Once the Philippines does tell us that they have chosen us for these 2 kids, we then have our travel documents sent in (basically a packet all about us along with our home study and references) and we wait another 5 months for the final yes...THEN we can meet the children on a video call.
Wow. It is hard. I have to keep reminding myself that GOD IS SOVEREIGN, and even though right now this wait is so hard, I know God is in control of the timing. I don't want to stop anticipating because I know I can trust God. But it is honestly so hard and discouraging sometimes how long the wait really is.
Christmas is a hard time of the year for Caleb and I as we see everyone enjoying festivities with their little ones. We have been waiting many years to be able to do that with children of our own. I hope we can be one step closer by the time Christmas rolls around.
I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." - Lamentations 3:24
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