Warfare!

This past two weeks has been very interesting, to say the least! I was reminded by a good friend this morning that our battle is not with flesh and blood but with powers and principalities of darkness. We must remain focused in prayer and in perspective that this is indeed a spiritual battle! We had bees attempt to nest in our garage, we had our pipe break under the kitchen sink, we had our fingerprints rejected due to our PD not having their system updated, we had my husband's car over-heating and have to get fixed, we had our family car break and though Scott worked on it all day Saturday he is still planning one more day of fixing so at the moment we are down to one vehicle (that won't fit our whole family). We also had both doctors refuse to give a copy of the license so we are probably going to write to the medical board for license certification letter (and hope these are acceptable in lieu of license copies). Right now Scott is doing his THIRD set of fingerprints because we got the notice last night that due to a clerical error they were again rejected. I get mine re-done tomorrow and am hoping it will be done correctly this time.

Thankfully, at least both our Dr.s filled out our medical forms and did sign with the notarization. We also did get some other papers that are immediately necessary notarized and mailed to be apostilled/certified by our secretary of state. We also got one personal reference letter back (of 3 required), Nathanael's teacher's letter back, Scott's employment letter back, and the bank and county are working on our home papers. So PLEASE - family and friends please pray for us to have strength and endurance as we chase this paper trail to get what we need to bring our son home! And also pray as there are a lot of things going on in Eastern Europe right now that may or may not affect if/when/how Americans may adopt from various countries, our son's included. Every step we take, every form we fill out, every dollar we spend is in faith - everything is uncertain - we feel a bit "blind" walking without knowing for sure exactly where/when we are going. We are working as quickly as possible to have our home-study finished and ready to submit our forms to the US for permission to adopt an orphan overseas - this is another large expense that's coming up soon (besides the other half of our homestudy fee) and so we are praying for God to continue to provide as this adoption progresses each day.