I have to be honest — when our home study was written and sent to us, I thought it would be just a day of sending our revisions to the agency. Boy, was I wrong. Our lives, for the past two weeks (maybe a little more), have been filled with reading and re-reading our home study. It even got so far as to the Bethany global office last week. At that point, I thought surely that was the end. I even went to The Cheesecake Factory and bought celebratory cheesecake slices for us. Once again—I was wrong.
After two full weeks of back and forth emails with our social worker, we've finally signed the finalized copy! It has gone back to the global office for approval. Once we've got that, it's on to the state of Illinois. Hopefully they will approve our application to adopt. Once we get their approval, we have to send it on to the national level and get approval.
Prayer Requests
- Please pray the home study would be read quickly in all three offices it is headed to over the next few months (global office, Illinois, national).
- Pray for Brian and I as we were given a referral last week (a child's file). After prayer and consideration, we felt the child's needs were more than we could handle. Please pray as this is an insanely hard process. Saying 'no' to a child breaks our hearts, but we trust the Lord that this brings us one step closer to our child(ren).