Thank you everyone for praying today! Our meeting went really well, I guess one could say..... We are very excited that we did decide in the meeting to go ahead with Full Disclosure. This means that we will get to read the boys' files completely. We will get to talk to their foster parents and any other adult involved in their care. We are still very new of course to all these procedures and timelines but we will tell you as much as we can as to how this all plays out!

First off, it will be a miracle from God if we do get these children, in the same that some of you have birthed healthy children. Second, our next meeting is coming up--October 27th-- After this, we do not know when the children will get to visit us. We do know that you start with small visits and work up to weekend visits and then they come and stay with you. Third, this will not be a quick process by any means, nothing could even possibly be completed until next summer at the earliest. Fourth, we are not allowed to discuss any specific details regarding the boys history at this time.

Shiloh and I are very excited still--if not more so now--after getting to learn a little more about these little boys. We are also very much more aware of how delicate this whole process of adoption is and how important it is that we trust it completely to God and not anyone or any procedure!

Here's how you can pray, without giving you too much information. We ask for wisdom as we review the boys' lives this next month and into November. The point here is that this is a life changing decision for us and our family. Then, we ask for each of the court dates and evaluations to go on in a timely fashion. There is also another sibling (sister) involved that we would ask you to pray for as well. Just pray as you are led! We are committed to going ahead with these young boys as far as the Lord allows. Our hearts deeply hope it will be forever! We hope and pray that they will become a permanent part of our home--and we haven't even seen them yet--not even a picture!! This is all of God.

I did not know how much love was left in my heart for the children that God had for us (ie maybe these 2 boys!). I knew in my head that I would love them but today was the first day that it was actually realized (in my heart). It's just the same as when you have your second child, wondering if you will love him or her as much as you did the first. You realize your heart opens bigger to let them in. It just keeps on getting bigger and bigger. You realize that with a bigger heart becomes more of a chance to get hurt, too. But, you go ahead and take that second child and third and now 6th and 7th for us! You take them with all the joy and with all the pain that they may bring. Pain of leaving, pain of rebelling, pain of seeing them hurt, pain of the effort to raise them.....but the gift of getting to love them. Only God has given us this love. Please pray that we we remember this in the nitty gritty of this life with children! And, of course, we ask that you pray that we would get to adopt these little boys--all with the overarching understanding that it is in the Lord's will.

Thank you!!! Thank you also for everyone who said they would pray. It was amazing how we felt them! I've heard people say this and this is one of those times, we really did feel the prayers!!

Ephesians 1.5 & 6 "He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His Grace....."