It is hard to do. It builds ones faith. I wish I didn't need my faith built. Do I trust that God is good? Do I trust that He loves Gideon more then me? Yes I do but I forget and I fret and I stumble and then I remember and then I wait.
We were waiting and not doing anything then we felt we should get our Dossier done (our Dossier is the paperwork that is sent to Haiti to be approved for adoption). Many things needed to happen to get this done and it all seemed to fall into place. As I type our Dossier is en route to us through the mail from South Carolina, sent from a kind hard working translator that grew up in a Haitian orphanage. Once we receive it we need to send it to the Haitian consulate in Chicago to be "Legalized". We don't know what this does but it is another step and several hundred more dollars to spend. As soon as that step is done we can send it to Haiti. The problem is... we have no one to send it to.
Haiti is changing things. This should be a good thing for future adoptions but for those of us still at the early steps it is not good. No one knows what these changes are. No one knows if these changes will really happen. No one knows how this will effect us. Possibilities are: we can adopt from OLTCH but we will need a lawyer, we can adopt from OLTCH but we will need to go through an adoption agency (at this time, no agency works with OLTCH), and the worst possibility of all is OLTCH will no longer be able to have children adopted from it. The thought is that we should know the answer in mid- October which will mean we will have a lot more questions.
We can wait a few weeks more to find this out, but... we have another problem. We are flying to Haiti the end of September to meet our sweet boy Gideon for the first time ever. We are so excited to see Haiti and meet him but... should we go? Gideon knows of us and asks for us to come but what if he meets us and then we can't adopt him? It seems impossible to imagine but it is a possibility. We are praying constantly about whether we should go.
Please pray for this process with us. There are a lot of precious families still waiting for their kids to come home. Please pray for wisdom for us to know what steps we should take in moving forward and pray that it will be clear to us if we should go to Haiti as planned.
Thank you for taking this journey with us. It is a wild one!
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