It's 8:15 am on Monday morning and already I've been on the phone with both the Haitian Immigration office and the one in Orlando. Though what the Haitian office emailed them wasn't exactly what they were looking for, the Orlando office decided to go ahead and process our fingerprints anyway. Wow - okay - so, Monday morning is starting off better than expected. Then the caveat: even though the fingerprints are being reprocessed, once everything gets to Haiti, the state department could still decide to kick everything back, requiring us to refile our i600a, repay all of those fees and redo our homestudy, including but not limited to physicals and background checks. For those of you not in the know, this could translate to a couple extra months of wait time and a couple thousand dollars in fees and crap. All of that is a possibility - all small one, but a possibility nonetheless.
So, what we need from everyone right now, is prayer. Lots and lots of prayer. Our homestudy update is scheduled for Friday and our fingerprints for Saturday, so we basically have an entire week in which our hands are tied, our train is stuck on the tracks and we have nothing to do but pray for a whole week. And maybe that's what He wanted all along.....
I know God is sovereign. I know that part of our calling, as a family, is to be the family for these two beautiful boys. I know that now that it has come down to the end and they are ready to come home, all hell, literally, is going to break loose and try to prevent this from happening. I get it. I don't like it and no one ever said I HAD to like it. But, I do have to be content, even in THIS situation and trust that what God has on the other side of this is for our good, to His glory. So, so, SO much easier said, than done. But, that is what I'm working on this week. Remembering the lessons I learned in Haiti nearly a year ago - to say (and mean) that "it is well with my soul."
(Note to God: I said I'm WORKING on it! That DOESN'T mean I'm begging you to test me on this. Okay, let's clarify: I'm working on working on this. Better?)
