Today we mailed in (what we think to be) the final piece of our Dossier. This, along with the other documents we mailed in two weeks ago will now be apostilled and translated and then sent to the DR.
Today is exactly 2 years, 5 days from our "official" start to this adoption journey when we first sent our request for services to our home study agency. Today also marks 3 years, 4 months and 6 days since that New Year's Eve conversation which started us on this journey.
We've moved to a bigger house, treaded through countless ups and downs of a home study that seemed to go on forever (but really only 20 months), been blessed beyond measure with financial gifts which cover the agency fees of the adoption, applied for services to our placing agency, attended training after training after training, dotted our Is and crossed our Ts on all the documents of our Dossier, gained friends in the adoptive community and in the DR we consider more like family, and encountered opportunities to share our story and, in turn our faith, in ways we never expected.
As we understand it, we've now completed everything we need to complete before we wait to be matched. Now begins THE WAIT. It is a weird feeling to have made it to this point. Ben and I were talking about having made it this far. We almost feel apprehensive. While the paperwork is no walk in the park, at least it was something in our control. The ball was in our court, so to speak. Now, though, we sit and wait. Dream and hope. Pray and trust.
As I returned home from mailing off that final piece, I couldn't help but feel like there is something more I should be doing to help move the process along. Then, once I had decided I really, truly just had to wait I searched my Bible for the word "trust" and landed on Psalm 37 where I found these few verses that went straight to my heart:
Psalm 37
3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
4 4 Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
...
7 Be still before the Lord
and wait patiently for him
