I have now started writing and deleted this post three times. I am not sure how to accurately portray and give credit to the things and people that have helped us the last few days. One thing is clear, we have amazing friends and family. I would like to tell you details of all of the things that have happened, but I also want to protect their privacy.
But I do want to tell you about today. We have another family in our church who is currently fostering and are hoping to be able to adopt one day. We have really bonded over this shared experience and we just love them and their adorable kids. We had the opportunity to go to the alter with them today and have our church family lift us up in prayer asking for the Lord to bless our adventure. It was such a powerful moment and the Spirit of the Lord was heavy.
Let me back up a few days and give some background information. One of the things that Jayson and I have been working on is trying to figure out the first financial payment that we needed to come up with to complete the first big step in the process. We figured out different ways that we could come up with it and although things were going to be quite tight, we felt good about it. We had decided that we were not going to ask people to help us financially through this process. We have no issues with other people doing it, and do not feel that there is anything wrong with that, we just didn't feel like it was right for us. We just want people to pray for us. We have also been looking at a couple different options to bring in more income. So that leads me back to today.
As we were praying I just felt God's reassurance once again that He had this, He would provide for us. I left the prayer time feeling so good about everything, so at peace. After this prayer time I was approached by someone from our church who we have known forever and is a friend of the family. They were asking about the process and where we were at in all of it. I was more than willing to answer because I love talking about it all :). This person then told me that they feel that they should help out and told me to sign them up for x-amount of dollars. I quickly assured them that we weren't asking people to donate any money, but they told me to stop. This is what they felt the Lord wanted them to do. Folks, it was the exact amount we needed. I just stared. I didn't know quite what to say so I just hugged this person and said thank-you. I felt God smiling at me and saying "See, I've got this." He is so good. I have been a big ball baby all day when I think about this.
To me this is just another assurance that we are where God wants us to be. Please continue to pray for us. We just turned in our application to foster care and are excited to get all the balls rolling at the same time!
-Andrea
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