Director: We have a situation...A little boy age 3 has become available in ******. He is cute as can be, described as very healthy, social and happy. The regional director is very excited about him. Are you interested?
Me: Uh yeah!
Director: Here's the clincher....you have to move very fast!
Me: How fast?
Director: Can you be in Russia next weekend?
Now imagine the tornado scene in Wizard of Oz...that was what was going on in my head! Emotions from everywhere, thoughts of what about this, what about that....can it be done?
The rest of the day was spent on the phone with Willem. We needed answers and a peace from the Lord and fast. We were getting no other information on this little guy. He is from a region that will not give any information till we get there. The fact that we got a picture is more than most.
Prayer, prayer, prayer and then the conclusion we came to was "yeah this is inconvenient timing and yeah this is scary but let's go...the Lord has us in His hands"
Willem rushed home....we filled out visa applications, headed off to take visa pictures and loaded all that and a check into a FEDEX envelope and handed it over at 7:30 pm...30 minutes before the last pick up of the day. We will hopefully receive our visas on the 20th! We leave on the 21st!
Friends! Now we need prayer more than ever. We are excited about meeting this little guy but oh so scared to get attached. Satan keeps whispering in our ears all the bad possible outcomes. Trying to make travel plans, child care arrangements and packing to leave the country for 9 days in a weeks time is hard enough without having bad thoughts enter your head!
Our specific prayer requests are:
First and foremost, the little guy waiting for us. His mind to be as unscathed as possible by the life he has endured. His heart to be open to us and for his mental and physical health to be if possible, Excellent!
After that our safety, the proceedings we will be involved in and of course our children here at home waiting for us.
Being honest, i'm scared to death! We're hopeful however and pray our next couple of posts are all good news from Russia!
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