Received notice from Colombia late this afternoon. Our referal for Carolina and Neydali has been withdrawn by ICBF. God has closed this door, we trust He has another door
He wants us to walk through by having faith and trusting Him.
Thank you for your prayers.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Delayed Again
Job said it best. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
This note is to let you know that we have had a development in our effort to follow God’s calling to adopt Carolina and Neydali. Let me explain. Yesterday we received a call from Children’s Hope. We had been expecting a call to be told our final document had been received from Immigration. We were at Joshua’s final basketball tournament of the year and did not hear the phone. We eagerly called back, only to face some very unexpected and shocking news. Although almost everything was complete in Colombia, the girls birth mother has somehow petitioned to stop the adoption and get her girls back. This was totally unexpected. The birth mother has not had any contact that we are aware of for 4 years and only a very few contacts in the 3 years before that. We do know that her parental rights were terminated and the girls have been legally place up for adoption by the Columbian government. We have read in great detail the birth family circumstances and the reasons they were taken from the mother- Nedali from the time she was 4 months old.
This comes as a complete shock to us. If their birth mother is now able to care for them and there has been dramatic change in her life circumstances, we do not want to stand in the way, even though we already love these two girls desperately. If the circumstances of extreme poverty and suffering have not changed we hope that Carolina and Neydali will be protected from that.
This sort of thing simply does not happen in international adoption. Nobody we are working through knows how to respond or what to expect. We don’t know if this means a delay of weeks or months or that God may be closing this door. We are in a state of disbelief and don’t know what to think or do. We were expecting to travel in in 3 or 4 weeks – now we wait.
While we don’t know what to do or think, we do know that God is still on His throne, and His hand is still on this endeavor. We do not pretend to understand the mind of God, nor de we desire to second guess His will in this adoption. Rather, we pray that His will be done. We know if we do not become Carolina and Neydali’s parents, we will grieve for them. Whatever the outcome we praise Him. He is our God and we love Him and submit to Him fully. We hope to get more information on what all this means over the next two weeks.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
We covet your prayers. Please pray:
1) That God will allow this to be resolved quickly
2) That He will comfort us in our grief if we loose Carolina and Neydali
3) That God will make clear what is do be done for these girls
4) That Carolina and Neydali will be happy and well cared for
This note is to let you know that we have had a development in our effort to follow God’s calling to adopt Carolina and Neydali. Let me explain. Yesterday we received a call from Children’s Hope. We had been expecting a call to be told our final document had been received from Immigration. We were at Joshua’s final basketball tournament of the year and did not hear the phone. We eagerly called back, only to face some very unexpected and shocking news. Although almost everything was complete in Colombia, the girls birth mother has somehow petitioned to stop the adoption and get her girls back. This was totally unexpected. The birth mother has not had any contact that we are aware of for 4 years and only a very few contacts in the 3 years before that. We do know that her parental rights were terminated and the girls have been legally place up for adoption by the Columbian government. We have read in great detail the birth family circumstances and the reasons they were taken from the mother- Nedali from the time she was 4 months old.
This comes as a complete shock to us. If their birth mother is now able to care for them and there has been dramatic change in her life circumstances, we do not want to stand in the way, even though we already love these two girls desperately. If the circumstances of extreme poverty and suffering have not changed we hope that Carolina and Neydali will be protected from that.
This sort of thing simply does not happen in international adoption. Nobody we are working through knows how to respond or what to expect. We don’t know if this means a delay of weeks or months or that God may be closing this door. We are in a state of disbelief and don’t know what to think or do. We were expecting to travel in in 3 or 4 weeks – now we wait.
While we don’t know what to do or think, we do know that God is still on His throne, and His hand is still on this endeavor. We do not pretend to understand the mind of God, nor de we desire to second guess His will in this adoption. Rather, we pray that His will be done. We know if we do not become Carolina and Neydali’s parents, we will grieve for them. Whatever the outcome we praise Him. He is our God and we love Him and submit to Him fully. We hope to get more information on what all this means over the next two weeks.
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
We covet your prayers. Please pray:
1) That God will allow this to be resolved quickly
2) That He will comfort us in our grief if we loose Carolina and Neydali
3) That God will make clear what is do be done for these girls
4) That Carolina and Neydali will be happy and well cared for
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