Welcome back from summer! Most of you know, we take off for the summer. We are hardly here physically, but also, we needed some down time as a family. With the completion of our dossier and it securely delivered to Haiti, we took the summer off from fund raising and just enjoyed one another and God's amazing beauty in Big Bear!
Sept1 came quick in my opinion, we started up our home school year and were waiting with prayer for the news on our match from the orphanage. Sept. 6th was a tiring day for me and I just was ready to get dinner made so I could go to bed....Around 5pm we got a call from our adoption agent to go to our computer because she had someone to introduce to us! Kevin was driving up just at that moment. I screamed to the kids, "Go get your dad quick!!" We were all screaming and jumping, trying to get the computer up and ready to open any email that might be there. I ran upstairs, fell face down on the carpet...with tears I apologized to God for my lack of faith, for my lack of patience....His timing is perfect. I hurried back downstairs and we paused to pray: to thank God ahead of time for the His perfect match, to thank Him for His leading, and to give us His wisdom.
We opened the email to be formally introduced to our new son, Jacques!!
I am still in awe of how God works. He has chosen us to be Jacques new family and yet he seems like he was born into our family. Our love for him was instant. Deep, true love. I heard that it happens, and I didn't worry about loving the child that God had for us. But to experience how fast and deep you can fall in love with another human that didn't grow inside you, well it's just a God thing. It's true love. It's designed by God for His glory. All glory to God! We are truly blessed that God chose us to be Jacques' family. I still don't know how to quite put it into words. I was saying that I am amazed by God, but He IS amazing. I think I am amazed that God allowed us to be a part of adoption.
All your prayers and love have been amazing. We have had balloon bouquets, new baby cards, flowers....all the things that help make this seem a little more real. Thank you to all of our friends and family for your encouragement, love and prayers. We still have a ways before Jacques can come home to live with us. We were blessed with the news that we were accepted into IBESR (their social services) and received our case number!! Now we are praying for a miracle to get out of that office in less than the normal time (3-9months). After that we will be able to make our 1st of 2 visits. We will meet Jacques, love on him, spend time with him and have our first court date.
Here is a video of Jacques singing Jesus loves Me in Creole and then English!!
Thank you again for your love!
Choosing Joy and Living with Truth,
Kevin, Zsanae, Ashlyn, Kason and Jacques!
