PROGRESS, Finally!

Can you believe it?  We have finally made some progress!  Somehow this month flew by (perhaps it could be because of working two jobs and a busy schedule on top of that???) and it flew by without much house work getting done in preparation for a home study.  I suppose I'm okay with that.  This is our home, it's fit for a child, and we will continually be working towards remodeling it to become unique to us (and most other buyers ha!).

But, ALL papers have been completed and signed, by us at least, our fire inspection is complete, and our home health inspection is taking place this coming Monday, October 3 at 3:30!!!  I wanted it completed in the first week of October, and so it will be!  Of course, now I'm fretting about getting everything completed for the health inspection in one weekend.  Thankfully, my awesome mom is coming in for the weekend to help get this place more than ready to meet/ exceed the requirements of the health inspection.  As soon as we pass the health inspection, the home study will FINALLY be scheduled!

I'm SO excited that we can see an end to the beginning of our "waiting".  At that point we will at least know that our next step will be opening our arms to our child/children.  Praise God for His perfect timing and the lessons He teaches us in the times we struggle to understand Him and His plans for us!

YEAH!  :)

Beautiful Things

God's timing?

Sure, that'd be nice to trust in...

Truthfully...  I've been relying on my own timing.  I don't consider myself much of a control freak in most areas of life, but I am definitely such when it comes to schedules and the timing of "life".  For example, I have WAY too many projects in mind for our house.  Right, having projects in mind is not a bad thing.  However, when I think of a project, I have the tendency to want it done NOW.  And because we're not made of money and time, I have to wait, and what's worse is I don't have a specific date at which I will no longer have to wait and the project(s) will be complete.

It seems like the timelines of so many things right now are questionable.  Perhaps the timeline of our adoption is the most difficult to understand.  We started in January with this process.  Yep, it's nearly been a year.  We're still awaiting the home study.  And even after we have that completed, who knows how long it will be before we actually have the laughter, tears, and sweet breath of a child in our home.  I had planned to have a "work weekend" here THIS month.  Of course, a plan was all it was.  I got angry that everyone's timing didn't work out.  I want the home study done NOW, dang it!  Sometimes I think, "If I was pregnant, I'd know how long it would be- 9 months."  But the wait is a struggle, and frankly rather depressing.

So, I can only wonder what God might be trying to teach me right now.  Or wonder what miraculous thing He has planned that requires the wait...  That's something to think about, hmmm...  Something beautiful, I'm sure.

I'm required now to only trust in His timing, not my own.  What a relief it is to know that the only true God who created me has authored my life!  He makes beautiful things out of dust, and will make beautiful things out of this wait.