Sharing our family, faith and the journey of adoption. We love to hear from you...please leave us a comment so we know you were here.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Gifts from Above...& Down the Road
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! We still have a long way to go, but every gift we receive helps immensely. If anyone has any questions regarding this adoption we are happy to talk with you about it. I think the more people that learn about the process the better (and trust me, it is a PROCESS!). Blessings for your day!
2 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Hi Stephanie:
Are you a member of the chances 4 children adoptive family forum? I am, and I just posted a message there about whether the 1974 adoption law that Haiti has on the books is going to be a problem for us, since we don't meet the requirements. According to the law, you have to have been married for 10 years and have no biological children and one spouse must be at least 35. Well, I've been married 8 years, my spouse is 34 and I'm 30 and we have 2 bio kids. Kathi of Chances 4 Children said this law will probably be enforced against parents whose files aren't in IBESR by this month (she said Oct 1 but perhaps she meant Nov 1)? I'm working with the Adoption Guides agency, and I've just emailed to ask their opinion. Have you heard anything? Will you ask your agency and get back to me? I'm more than a bit worried. Our homestudy will be complete this month, but because of the things that have to happen on the Haiti side, we won't be in IBESR this month -- likely next month or early December.
Feel free to email me directly at dominiquec@comcast.net
Faith is BELIEVING the Word of God and acting on it no matter how I feel, believing that God will bring a good result.
Faith is not a belief that everything will turn out to please us; rather it is the confidence that no matter how things turn out, God will somehow use the events in our days for His glory and for our good.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Faith is being willing to trust God - turning your hopes and problems over to Him and trusting in His wisdom - and knowing that somehow everything will turn out for the best. No matter how difficult or dark things become, there is always a light.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
2 comments:
Hi Stephanie:
Are you a member of the chances 4 children adoptive family forum? I am, and I just posted a message there about whether the 1974 adoption law that Haiti has on the books is going to be a problem for us, since we don't meet the requirements. According to the law, you have to have been married for 10 years and have no biological children and one spouse must be at least 35. Well, I've been married 8 years, my spouse is 34 and I'm 30 and we have 2 bio kids. Kathi of Chances 4 Children said this law will probably be enforced against parents whose files aren't in IBESR by this month (she said Oct 1 but perhaps she meant Nov 1)? I'm working with the Adoption Guides agency, and I've just emailed to ask their opinion. Have you heard anything? Will you ask your agency and get back to me? I'm more than a bit worried. Our homestudy will be complete this month, but because of the things that have to happen on the Haiti side, we won't be in IBESR this month -- likely next month or early December.
Feel free to email me directly at dominiquec@comcast.net
Thanks!
Dominique
Thanks Dominique - I'll e-mail you off blog and we'll chat.
Post a Comment