Almost There.....Sorta

Well we are starting month three of the “paper chase” and we are almost there.  Our home study is complete and all of our documents but one is ready to be sent.  We have one final document that we need from USCIS in order to be able to send our dossier off and go DTE (Dossier to Ethiopia).  Honestly, I am pretty amazed that we are this close.  Our hope was to be ready to send our dossier off sometime in June and it looks like that will happen.

Even though this was our goal there was a part of me that thought we would be lucky if everything was ready by September.  I know not very positive!!  I guess the 11 years of waiting has me being cautious……ok negative.

Early on when we started this journey we decided that Ana would be the one to lead the charge on building our dossier and because of her we will be ready to send it off in June!!!

I am excited about this next step but nervous about the waiting. 

I wonder what we will do to celebrate our DTE?

How should we prepare?

What books should we read?

 Is there more training we should do?

Will we save enough money?

Are we crazy for doing this?

As I am sitting here writing this and wondering what to type next I glanced over at a book sitting on my desk.  It is actually the team devotional from our most recent mission’s trip. 

The page it is open to says this,

“But, this also means you are free from carrying the big load.  You don’t have to do it all yourself!

You don’t have to save the world.  Jesus took care of that.  You don’t have to convict people.  The Holy Spirit does that.  You don’t have to know all the answers; God is taking care of that.  All you have to do is be a branch that stays tight with the vine, and God’s fruit will be produced through you.” 

I guess I will take that as a reminder that God is in control!!!

Peace,

Shawn