We have had a crazy six months here. So much has happened in many areas in the lives of the Goodreaus, but just nothing regarding progress in our adoption. When you first enter the adoption process it is easy to quit making plans in life because you are waiting for that little one to come home and you don’t want anything else to get in the way. Sometimes then the wait goes on and on and on, until one day you realize that we have no control of the timing and we have to continue to do the things that God is calling us to and take the opportunities that come onto our path.
In February
of this year another life change began. My sister and I felt God clearly calling us to
step out and start an adoption agency.
The agency we have worked for and been mentored under for five years had
some changes coming with our director being called to the mission field of
Haiti. When we learned of that change we
felt this strong calling by God to step out and start our own agency. Just to be clear, my first words to Anita
when talking through all of this were, “I can tell you what I am not going to
do, I am not going to start an agency.”
Anyone else out there know that feeling of the exact thing you tell God
you are never going to do become the EXACT thing that He ends up asking you do
to? I thought I had learned never to do
that, but clearly I am still a major work in progress! After many months of paperwork we received
our agency license on August 15th.
We are now a fully licensed agency in Minnesota … Legacy Of Adoption …
you can check us out at www.legacyofadoption.com. I cannot explain why the timing of this
happened the way it did, but I can say that had we had our little one home
already I think I would have missed or passed on this calling to open an
agency. Scaling back in my current position
to get ready for our daughter only to find that she still isn’t home, but in
that ‘scaling back’ now had the time to pursue the involved steps of opening an
adoption agency. God always has each detail
figured out.
Another
adventure is about to begin for us. In
mid-July we came upon an old farm house acreage property that was super
exciting to find. Living on acreage is something
that Chris and I have desired for many years, really our whole marriage. When we moved into our current home 11 years
ago we had put that dream to rest believing that it would never happen. We have so enjoyed this home that God has
provided for us and have not been looking for that long dreamed of
property. It has been a crazy month of
figuring out if this is a good idea to pursue this property which would
actually reduce our mortgage. Our offer
on the property was a long back and forth ordeal and we came to a point where
we really didn’t think it was going to happen.
When all finally was approved through a purchase agreement with a contingency
requiring our current house to sell we had our house on the market within a few
days. We went on the market on a Monday
afternoon and by Wednesday we had an offer.
It was a week before inspections were completed and all items figured
out through that process, contingencies were removed and we have closing dates
on our sale and purchase set for September 30th. We are completely overwhelmed and so grateful
for how fast this all happened. We don’t
know why we didn’t have to go through a long grueling sale but we are so
thankful.
So, more lessons on understanding that sometimes we wait, and often there can seem to be some purpose in the wait that we hadn’t been able to see prior. We are still, at this time, planning to continue on with our adoption process in Ghana. That is what we have come to for the moment. We need to be sure that God is closing that door, not us. We understand that some more changes are coming in the region that our little one is in, so we need to wait a little bit before continuing in the process. With a move into a new home we will also have lots of paperwork to re-do. I am pretty used to paperwork this year, feels like it is all I have done!
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