He moves the mountains!

I remember having a conversation with a friend a few months back about all that we have "endured" and waited for during this licensing process. This was when everything was at a halt- for months. I told her that I wished God would give us a sign that this was what we were suppose to be doing- because so many times we doubted. I mean c'mon, surely God wouldn't make us wait a year just for our license. Then today as I got two phone calls, one to schedule our fire inspection and one to schedule our health inspection- I also remembered all the times God has moved mountains for us in this process, he has been here the entire time.

Every time I would get weary and start thinking of just pulling our file and not dealing with it- something moved. Something in the process was signed, finished or scheduled.

Every time we would think of just adopting because this process is just ridiculous- looking into agencies and countries and having our papers sent over to state adoptions- something moved.

Every time we would doubt if God was in this- if this is what he wanted us to be doing- something moved. More recent experiences, last month was super tough for me. I was so "done", I remember going to church one morning after having serious thoughts and talks with my husband about not doing this anymore, and the second the pastor got up and started praying for us- he was praying about people being discouraged and wanting to give up. I immediately started crying- it was totally for me. I was seriously at the end of my rope and ready to just let go, and he knew. A day later we were licensed.

Even though we've had our license for a month now- we are still unable to get children because we moved and our inspections had to be updated. This is what took so long in the beginning, it took 6 months for our previous home to be inspected. So from past experience, we knew having them updated was no simple, short thing. It was huge, and it would probably be a long, long wait. So we started by praying and fasting for our inspections to be scheduled. Just last week I asked a friend " Do you think I should call the fire marshal and dhec myself? Or just wait and believe that God is going to have these scheduled before this fast is over?" I really wanted to call. But I also wanted to wait and see if God was going to really pull through, even when I had totally cheated on my fasting a few times. I decided to wait. Why do I ever doubt God?

Last night Mr. and I were looking into adoption agencies who had programs in India- somewhere he and I both deeply desire to serve...or adopt from. Who knows what will really happen :)

Anyway, I got into my mood- my "Oh I dont care if our inspections never get scheduled, we can proceed with this after baby brother is born" mood. And that's all I thought about last night and even this morning.

Then today I got calls scheduling BOTH of our inspections- BOTH, in ONE day. I could cry, he ALWAYS sets us back on the right path, ALWAYS. And it's been exactly ONE month since we received our license, one month to the day. Not 6 months, it's not spring, we were really expecting not to have them done until summer...and it's also before the fast has ended. It's things like this that remind us that we are doing what HE want's us to do, even if it's not the most popular thing. Even if some don't think it's the most important, it is...because it's what we are suppose to be doing.

I'm so extremely happy/thankful/giddy/in awe/amazed/shocked/excited/ and grateful. God is so good- the wait is always worth it.