"Every decision shouldn't be a good decision, but a God decision." - Tommy Tenney

We recently received the final copy of our home study in the mail! Two copies were mailed to Holt and a few more remain here as we do paperwork for USCIS and apply for a grant as well. All was going well until I punched in some income numbers for our grant and realized there may be a mistake on our income in the home study!!! AAAHHHHH! Will this ever end??? Hopefully I will be able to talk to Holt today and our social worker as well. I know it's just another "bump in the road".

We KNOW God is faithful. A couple weeks ago, I made the difficult decision not to apply for a temporary 5th grade teaching position. Everything had been lining up perfect for it. I was becoming eager to teach the class and was excited for what we thought was God's financial provision. However, we knew this would greatly affect our boys and the church - and possibly not in a positive way. The night that we made the decision, I had a dream I was driving through a neighborhood and I saw a massive pile of scrap metal - just sitting there waiting to be hauled off. I got so excited and began loading up the van with as much as I could..... I woke up that morning in awe of God's message to me that He will provide - like He told me from the start of this process - in ways I don't expect.

A few days later, I was in the church office and Billy handed me an envelope. It had cash in it and on the outside was the name of one of our parishioners and "scrap metal". This man had taken in some scrap and wanted to give the money towards our adoption. My spirit just rejoiced!

The following weekend, Billy and I were blessed to be able to attend a minister's conference with Tommy Tenney and, amongst many other amazing words from God, our decision was again confirmed through the story of Ruth and Naomi. He said, "Every decision shouldn't be a good decision, but a God decision."

God is good! Prayerfully I'll soon be able to post that we have sent our paperwork to USCIS.