It has been a long time since I posted. I haven’t been the best blogger lately!! Sorry 😉
A lot has changed since my last post. We have received our Matching Approval letter which is the hardest and longest part of adoption!! Ours was especially hard because it took forever! We also have gotten our I800 approval which basically means that the US gov says we can adopt our specific boys. Now we are waiting on something called Article 5 and that is issued by Hong Kong and usually takes 1-3 weeks. After that we will go into something called High Court Order and soon after that we will be traveling to HK to get our boys!
So yea this has been a process. One that has tested me in ways I never knew possible. I have cried. I have rejoiced. I have wept. I have laughed. I have had so many opportunities to share with many people our love for Asia and orphans. It has been a special journey and I believe I am crazy enough to go down it again. Now that MA is over 😉 Haha!
We still have a few months before we get to go back to Asia, but we are confident it will be late this year. Of course anything can happen and that can always change, but we feel December is a safe estimate to when we will get to go.
I want to ask you all to pray for E and M and this huge transition in their lives. They are both in foster homes (separate) with families that I am sure love them very much and that they love as well. My heart aches for the pain they will experience when they have to be taken away from the only family they have ever known. This at times can lead me to fear and worry that we are doing the right thing. But when those feelings come I know that isn’t from God and He gently reminds me of what my sweet friend Jaimie once said to me, “But will they get to know Jesus if you don’t adopt them?” When everything is all said and done that is all that truly matters.
Once this life is over the only thing that really matters is where our relationship is with Jesus. If we don’t know Jesus, love Jesus and be obedient to Jesus then what will we have to show for it in the end? He is everything, friends!
Thank you for your support and prayers! They are deeply appreciated!
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him. ~John 14:21
Peace, Love and Adoption Friends,
Kristy
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