The Ball is Rolling!!

It seems always to be the way. When I finally give something up, it is then that I get results! I remember once while hoping for a third child and this pregnancy did not happen for over 7 months, so we started thinking of adoption. We decided that we couldn't afford it and we would just be content with the children we had. To quote myself: "I am thrilled with the boys I have." Well, right after I gave it to God and thought, "It's in Your hands," and stopped trying to organize the situation, I found I was pregnant - within days!

So this time it was the same thing. Within days of giving it up and saying that there was a reason and there was nothing I could do about this 'delay' of my vision, we got results! Monday morning, bright and early, the social worker sent me an email!!

Our visits are all arranged. She was extremely cooperative and knowing that we had a time crunch and that we lived so far from her, she was willing to double up all our visits. I had been originally hopeful to get three in the town she lives in (2 hours from us), and one at our house. That would take care of the six 'official' visits we have to have. But she offered even better than that! She offered to have us do *three* visits in total!!! Two in her town and one at our house. Where I thought the visits would be 2 hours each (based on what I heard) I expected the double visits to be 4 hours each, but she has said we can expect a double visit to last 2+ hours. Nice!

She said we could bring our two year old with us if we needed to. But we have been very blessed with many kind friends who have risen up and changed their schedules or included our children, so that they could accommodate us! What a blessing! Therefore we will not be bringing Briton. I do not want to be distracted by him when I am going to be nervous enough as it is!

She also offered to do all our visits on weekends or during the evening, so that Ray can work. We figured he would lose three days of work over this! How great is that!

Our first visit is this coming Saturday! The next visit is on Wednesday, 3rd of October, and our final visit will be October 14! That means from our first to our last appointment it will only be two weeks!!!! God is good!!! He managed to make up the lost time!!! Too cool!!!!

I have no idea how long it will take her to write up her report, mail it and get it to Hope. And I have no idea how long Hope will have it before they approve it and mail it to Kidslink. But at the rate we are going with her doing all our appointments within two weeks, we might just get our dossier to Ethiopia before the end of November!! That would be at least 4 weeks earlier than it was starting to look!! It could even be sooner, if people move things along quickly!!

"Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." Habakkuk 2:2-3

An appointed time speaks of a determined time in God's eyes.

Though it tarries, wait for it: God knows His plan and the outworking of all things in accordance with His purposes. The godly are responsible to study and proclaim His revelation while awaiting its fulfillment.

It will surely come: The assurance of fulfillment lies in God Himself.

It will not tarry: The fulfillment of the vision would not take any longer than God had planned.

I have to remember that all things will happen in HIS time and not MY time!!! There is always a reason. But we are so very thankful that things are rolling forward!!