A Face to our Prayers!

Last weekend, a little boy became available on the "Waiting Child List" for our adoption agency. As Sean and I have walked through this process the past six months, God has been so faithful to give us directions in finding the child that He had for us. For example, would it be a boy or girl? What age range? Were we open to any handicap, i.e. cleft palate, club foot, etc.? All of these were things we prayed about and felt God was using those answers to steer us towards our Levi. As this little boy came up last weekend, we immediately saw that he fit every category with the limited information we had on him. We called our worker at the adoption agency and told her we would like to know more about him. We were approved to see his file that evening, and spent hours looking through the information that was available on him. The more we looked, the more we knew we were looking at our son. Knowing we had been praying specifically about this for six months already, God affirmed in our hearts and spirit that this was our answered prayer right away. Our fleece had already been laid out before God, and He placed this sweet child right in our laps! So, today the papers were officially signed. We have accepted the referral. Levi is ours! Oh, he is so precious! We cannot wait to be able to share more details or a picture, but must wait until our first court appearance for that to happen here. To see the face of the one we have prayed so long for, especially after the past six months of this "paperwork pregnancy" has been the sweetest blessing for this mama's and daddy's heart.

"For this child, we have prayed, and the Lord has granted our petition." 1 Samuel 1:27