I hope you all had a fantastic Easter! I had 5 days off and am now dreading going back to work tomorrow.
As I am sure you are aware we are still WAITING! We are also still hopeful and confident it will happen soon. We have been told on many occassions lately about kids that are coming availble from friends who are teachers, social workers and foster parents. They all want us to persue the kids they know, but we want God to be the match maker for us. My heart goes out to all of those kids and I wish I could take them all, but we want to follow God's plans for our life.
Dave has also been patiently waiting for a Government job at Stats Canada. He applied in May and after many rounds of testing and interviews got accepted into the pool in January. He knows the government is super slow, but he is really tired of his job and is looking forward to getting the official job offer. I really hope God will bless him soon!
God has done some pretty amazing things for us since we have been married. We actually got married without having jobs and our parents were not too thrilled about that, but we trusted that we would be taken care of and Dave got the call while we were on our honeymoon.
I spent two years trying to persue my dream of teaching to find out that God had much better plans for me. His will was for me to work in Residence Life, he took us to Edmonton where we spent two years and then provided me with the amazing job I have at Algonquin.
We really have been blessed and He has shown us how amazing things can be when we trust in Him. He has perfect plans and we cannot wait to find out more about His plans for our adoption....
Monday, April 13, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Wow....it's April!
The past few weeks have gone by pretty fast, but the whole waiting for our family has been painfully slow. Dave called the CAS last week to see if there was anything new and our SW told us it has been really slow, but when kids are available it happens really fast. I was dissapointed to hear there was no news, but have given my dissapointment to God. He confirmed with me that last week was not his time and I was able to get through the rest of the week trusting his perfect plan.
Although Dave and I have been hopeful each and every day that "today would be the day" we have also felt the Spring time was when it would happen. I specifically would get these little whispers that would say " it will happen around your anniversary". I actually did not want to hear that simply because April seemed so far off, but yesterday morning I got really excited when I realized our 10 year anniversary is today! We started dating on Easter long weekend, and assumed our anniversary was next week, but when looking on the calendar I discovered our first date was April 3rd 2009!
So I have been eagerly seeking God's will for our adoption, asking for wisdom and confirmation if the time is coming and patience and understanding if we are still to wait. Dave and I are very different this way; I wake up each morning asking to be blessed that day, but to be given wisdom if that day was not his will. Dave is fine to just wait and trust on God's plan. We both want the blessing of children equally as much, but deal with waiting very differently.
A coworker of mine has had some dreams about our adoption and I am hoping they were blessings of encouragement from God. She has had two other dreams this past year that she has shared with me about work stuff and both of them have come true. One was that our office got broken into and it did, the other was that a coworker left and that also happened right after she told me. She had a dream a month ago that she spent the summer with my replacement who was this guy Dan, since I was gone with the kids. Even better, she had a dream last week that I hired Dan and two days after he started I got "the" call. When she told me the dream last Friday it was actually the same day that I was going to be calling Dan to offer him the job, so already one part of her dream I knew was true. Dan started on Wednesday! Two days later is today, our anniversary! I had never really had any experience with visions in dreams, but after some reading last night I discovered that God does use dreams to communicate with us - "Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream" (Num. 12:6).
I TRUST that God's plan is more perfect than my own and I confidently wait on Him. I also trust that he is working in me to understand his will and do feel an overwhelming confidence from the Holy Spirit that the time is coming.
So I still wait...
Although Dave and I have been hopeful each and every day that "today would be the day" we have also felt the Spring time was when it would happen. I specifically would get these little whispers that would say " it will happen around your anniversary". I actually did not want to hear that simply because April seemed so far off, but yesterday morning I got really excited when I realized our 10 year anniversary is today! We started dating on Easter long weekend, and assumed our anniversary was next week, but when looking on the calendar I discovered our first date was April 3rd 2009!
So I have been eagerly seeking God's will for our adoption, asking for wisdom and confirmation if the time is coming and patience and understanding if we are still to wait. Dave and I are very different this way; I wake up each morning asking to be blessed that day, but to be given wisdom if that day was not his will. Dave is fine to just wait and trust on God's plan. We both want the blessing of children equally as much, but deal with waiting very differently.
A coworker of mine has had some dreams about our adoption and I am hoping they were blessings of encouragement from God. She has had two other dreams this past year that she has shared with me about work stuff and both of them have come true. One was that our office got broken into and it did, the other was that a coworker left and that also happened right after she told me. She had a dream a month ago that she spent the summer with my replacement who was this guy Dan, since I was gone with the kids. Even better, she had a dream last week that I hired Dan and two days after he started I got "the" call. When she told me the dream last Friday it was actually the same day that I was going to be calling Dan to offer him the job, so already one part of her dream I knew was true. Dan started on Wednesday! Two days later is today, our anniversary! I had never really had any experience with visions in dreams, but after some reading last night I discovered that God does use dreams to communicate with us - "Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream" (Num. 12:6).
I TRUST that God's plan is more perfect than my own and I confidently wait on Him. I also trust that he is working in me to understand his will and do feel an overwhelming confidence from the Holy Spirit that the time is coming.
So I still wait...
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