Acceptance

Ok...it's been a few days since receiving the bad news about the extended wait time and I think we are okay. From day 1 we've been told by our agency that there will be fluctuations and to always be ready for change. Guess we just weren't ready to hear that.
I did a little research on foster parenting through the State of Tx...thought maybe we could do that during our wait time. No, not what we are supposed to do...didn't get that tugging at my heart from the Holy Spirit that we need to go in that direction. Domestic? Nope, still nothing. 'Be patient' is all I am hearing right now. It is very hard to do...and some of my family does not understand why we are staying with Taiwan...'there are children here in the US that need homes'. Although that is very true it is not what is planned for our life. How do you get other people to understand that?...
Thanks everyone for all your thoughts and prayers...it's a long road ahead of us and hopefully it won't get any longer than what it is now.

Shane and Misty

Discouraged

We got an update from our adoption case worker today about the wait time for a referral. It seems the wait time has been extended from 24 months to 30 months. At this point, with the new time frame, we still have 2 more years to wait for a referral. That's not including the few months we will wait after that for the court proceedings to take place before we travel. I can't tell you how discouraged I am right now and my first reaction is to switch over to domestic. At this rate Jeffrey will be almost 9 years older than his brother or sister...and I'm sure not getting any younger either. :)

Of course the only thing to turn to now is prayer...God's plan. Although he has revealed to me in the past that we are on the right track it feels that we are running as fast as we can, although in the right direction....on a treadmill.

Please pray for our patience and renewed reassurance.

God Bless,
Misty and Shane