"Lord, I never asked for this."

We are moving forward. God has been so present. I can't wait to see how this unfolds. When we received our dossier back from the translator it seemed there was no urgency anymore. It seemed nothing would happen if we got it done now or later. However, we wondered why we felt we needed to get it done before? Was God saying something different now?

No, it didn't seem like it.

I went and saw Beth Moore speak at our church. She has been a huge mentor of mine. She spoke on two stories in II Kings 4. The first was about a woman who was told to collect jars from neighbors. The more she collected the more oil God gave her to save her and her son. This was a story God had brought to my mind when I prayed about if we should continue our dossier. he was telling us if we did the hard work He would perform the miracle. The second story was of a woman who was fine and didn't feel she needed anything. The prophet Elisha wanted to give her something so he told her she would have a son. She had this son within the year despite her old age. Several years later this son died and she found Elisha immediately and asked "Did I ask you for a son, my Lord? Didn't I tell you, don't raise my hopes?!" It occurred to me that this is what I have been saying lately as adopting Gideon seemed to be slipping away, "Lord, I never asked for a son, you were the one to raise this hope in me!" Elisha went and brought the boy back to life. God will breathe life into what He has given us. What an encouraging word

So Jeb took the dossier to FedEx Tuesday night and paid a lot to overnight it to the Haitian Consulate and included a return envelope for them to send it back legalized. When he got back I asked why he paid so much to overnight it when it didn't matter how quick it was done? He said "I thought that was our plan?" Coincidence that I wasn't there to talk him out of overnight? I had planned to go with him. I was concerned about all of the money and that night we were told our fliphouse sold for cash. Coincidence? In the meantime we went to get passport photos at Costco. I thought we needed 6 each but Costco would only sell sets of 4 so we had to get 8 each. When I was putting our dossier together I realized we did need 8 each. Coincidence? As I said the fed ex was sent Wednesday and we had it back in our hands legalized Friday morning. This timing allowed us to overnight the finished dossier to our friend in Missouri who will take it to Haiti on Monday. Coincidence?

What will God do next.

By the way, we are flying to Haiti next weekend to meet our little boy :)