Hallelujah

As amazing as it is the Home Study is finally in my hands. I am beyond excited I cried. I opened the email from our social worker and there it was, the draft of the home study. I understand now I have to go over it carefully and correct anything that needs correcting or changing but it is done. It is finally done and it is real. Up til now it almost seemed like it was not real, or like it would never really end; it would just go on and on with no end in site but now it's here. I read through it quickly, reading some of it out to hubby. It is long and it was longer still before. The social worker said she had to cut it down a lot. I guess when the adoptive parents are older there is a lot of material to go through. She had to use her discretion and slice it down but it's good. It's very good and best of all her recommendation is ... to move ahead towards adoption.

Even with all the challenges we were able to work through them and she was able to find positive outcomes but I know that even that is no guarantee that I will be able to help one child. Will we adopt? God seems to be revealing the answer to that one step at  a time and in each step we learn and we grow and so each step is very crucial for us.

I can see it now. It is building love, strength and faith in each other like never before. This child is teaching us so much already. How can we forsake her?  We cannot.