For the past week, I have been researching on the internet, sending e-mails and talking on the phone...all in an effort to make a decision regarding which agency we will use. I must admit....it is stressful (as in capital letters, lose sleep over stress - add in more punctuation here please).
So I, in my typical nerdy fashion, have a spreadsheet for each agency....listing pros, cons, basic information, non-basic information and the (drum roll please) fees. Now if I could just handpick a specific quality from this agency, the case manager from this agency and the fees from this agency, we'd be set.
And as if choosing an agency wasn't stressful enough, we also need to finalize the country we would like to adopt from. We are adopting from Africa....done deal - no need to discuss - as God made that quite clear to us. BUT, what He didn't let us in on is the specific country.
Did you know there are 54 countries in Africa?? (Me neither...until I began looking). So I began researching the countries that allow international adoption to see which countries we can adopt from (based upon ages and other factors) and narrowed the list down fairly quickly. 54 countries became 5 countries within a day.....now we're talking!! Those 5 countries quickly became 2 for my husband and myself. I really feel God is leading us toward one specific country with such a great need, I can't even begin to imagine or comprehend.
So stay tuned as we finalize these decisions...we'd appreciate prayer as we are making these SO important decisions about choosing an agency and selecting a country. With these decisions, we are one step closer to our child. May we follow where God is leading.
Blessings,
Lauren
No comments:
Post a Comment