It is the Lord's purpose that prevails

After having all signatures notarized, all notaries apostilled and then all papers copiedx3... we have completed our dossier (again) and it is on its way to our agency via Fed Ex!!!
I would like to be able to say that we have one foot in the door and all they need is our new paperwork to invite us to Ukraine, but the truth is there are a lot of unanswered questions that leaves us on our knees praying for wisdom and discernment as we move forward.  
Due to events that have happened in the past 2 weeks, we are now very cautious of going over to Ukraine for a "blind referral" (not seeing any children until in country).  Because of this, we have found a little girl from Ukraine through another organization and have asked our agency if they can get us more information of her. We do not know if we can pursue sweet little Isabelle, but we are hopeful to find out soon.
In the mean time we are praying...praying for Isabelle, praying for our hearts during this hard process, praying for God to direct our path.
We are trusting God with our adoption.
-Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.- Proverbs 19:21

Good News!

Once again God has proved himself to be trustworthy and in control of this adoption! We have been approved for a grant that will be a huge financial blessing for bringing our child home! How grateful I am that when God asks us to do something, He provides the way. He provides in ways that I could not have even imagined.


So now we are waiting for a few documents to be finished so that we can resubmit our dossier. Some people have asked how so much (of our dossier) could have been wrong. I wondered the same thing at first! We dotted every "i" and crossed every "t", how could almost everything be wrong? The truth is that God is in control of our paperwork and if he needs to slow things down, he will. Maybe our child is not ready to be adopted yet. maybe God needed more time to work on our hearts. I don't know why, but I do know that He loves our child more than we do and we can trust Him.


We are hopeful to have another update on our progress in a week or two with perhaps even a travel date around the corner!