Saturday, September 20, 2008

Fingerprinting is Done!!!

We went to Atlanta Thursday to the US Citizenship and Immigration Service, USCIS, for fingerprinting. This is supposed to be the final step in our immigration paperwork to be able to bring Maggie across the border when we travel. We had a great time and made it a date. It's amazing how much you have to catch up on with the person you are married to. Life sometimes gets too busy, and we need to rally in the troops and hunker down with our family. Now we wait again for the fingerprints to get processed and for the USCIS to send us an I-171 form to send to El Salvador. This whole waiting thing is so in tune with what the Lord is revealing to us right now. When you are in a position of waiting, you basically are not in control, you can't do anything to speed up the process, and you have to learn to keep living. It's a picture of what the Lord wants from us, to "Be Still and KNOW that I AM God". We are to JUST BE. He is in control. His timing is PERFECT. I (Patricia) am a doer and am learning what it means to just be. It really is a matter of trusting Him and letting Him live through me. Maggie is more than likely born already, living in the orphanage, or on the side of the road, or in a home where her birthmother is desperately trying to take care of her. God has His hand upon her life right now, and anything He allows into her life He will use for His glory and His purposes. We believe with all our heart that the little girl God wants to entrust to us is the PERFECT chosen one for our family. So what now, join us in praying for her and for those in close contact with her now. We are praying that "the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it." Isaiah 40:5

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Praying, praying and praying some more. Love you guys! Can't wait to meet Maggie.

Gretchen

Anonymous said...

We do pray for her and love her already! Adoption just seems to put you in that place... puts you in such a place of SURRENDER, yeilding everything to Him, hands up high, completely trusting Him.....exactly where he wants you to be Patricia!!! I really think he looks down from heaven and smiles on such a state of total dependence! Love, amy

cbass said...

yay ! exciting :)

love you!

Anonymous said...

i've just read all your blog entries from the beginning. wow and wow again. - d