Prayer Requests while we wait...

It has been two weeks or so since I last updated.
Many wonderful things have happened since then and there is NO lack of God's abundant provision!
Since I last wrote, we have raised $12,950!!! I have pledged to put the final amount (whatever it ends up being since donations are still coming in) on my Vision Wall in my office prior to leaving for Uganda! I will take a picture for my phone so it is carried with me as well.

 When times get tough...and doubt sets in:
I will have it to remind me of GOD's HAND on this adoption.
That He used others to confirm and affirm this calling on our life!

That it was His call and His equipping.

That it will be His strength and His wisdom to carry us through.

While we wait for the final word that we can purchase tickets... we are doing other things to fill the time...
Last week Jason, the kids, and I rearranged the house and prepared all the bedrooms! This was fun for our kids. They CANNOT wait to have two new brothers and a sister. They chipped in by picking out bedding and making beds!

This week I have been going through all the documents that we will have to take with us to our Embassy appointment after the court ruling comes back. I must say, my head is spinning with all of these things. These documents make me anxious as well. They have admittedly caused me to doubt the process and think...what if we are denied? What if court says No? What if court says No and embassy says Yes??? Good grief...I just need to remember in WHOM my hope lies. It is not in the court, the embassy, or myself, it is in HIM. I must remember He will work it all out. It is our job just to the fill the paperwork out, be where we need to be, and allow God to work.

With all of this said, I have a few prayer requests...

1. I am having surgery again on Monday back in the states at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, VA. Please pray it goes as planned and I recover quickly and that the surgery WORKS this time! However, if it is God's will that it fails again, would you please pray with me that the 2 week of healing will be all I need to get on the plane to Uganda and function as normally as possible as I have been currently through the pain I am living with. I leave Sunday the 19th and return Saturday the 24th.

2. Getting word to "GO BUY YOUR TICKETS"!!! We need this to come sooner than later. Not just because we want it to, but Jason has to have special paperwork approved by the embassy for him to be in country. Yes...I know totally weird, but due to his prior work in Africa the government has to clear his trip to Uganda and brief him when he gets there. Without Jason...there is no adoption! It is important that we get the go ahead so Jason can submit this paperwork for clearance to be there!

3. For God to work in our hearts...YOu may be thinking, "she is crazy, God is working..." Yes, you are right He is...He has been...but I have a request that you pray God would show us while in Uganda if we are to return to Africa after the Navy as His servants to spread the Gospel. YES!!! I just said that out loud, people. Pray God would clearly speak to us about this. That we would leave Uganda KNOWING for sure that we are to return one day or that God would CLOSE the door. We have been praying about this for YEARS...and it is time for God to clearly show us! We pray He chooses to do so while we are in Africa as a family.

4. Pray for our new kiddos!!! Faith had her 6th birthday yesterday and Duncan has his 8th birthday on the 21st. I so wish we could have shared that with them! Please pray for Duncan, Faith, and Mark. This is all going to be new to them. I am nervous and scared for them. I am nervous and scared for ourselves. Not because I don't have love for them, because the love that God has given me for these kids is just as incredible, unimaginable, and as awesome as God is!!!! Just pray...I cannot put into words how I have been trying to wrap my brain around how they have been feeling about this entire process...

I guess that is all for now! I will update again as soon as there is NEW news!!!