Yesterday, Friday December 2nd, we finished our home study! This is a milestone for us, the last of five meetings. It will take a couple weeks for our social worker to put everything together, and then it will all go off to immigration. This is the first big step to get past. Once we get immigration approval we will send our dossier to China (the next big step), and eventually get our "log-in date". That's when we will be ready for placement. So our home study should go off around Christmas, and probably about 3 months later we should be accepted for placement. That's about as far as we can think right now, anything else would be getting ahead of ourselves! We saw video this week of a little girl being adopted from the Mao Ming orphanage. It was amazing to think that our little boy might be one of the faces there among the crowd, yet we don't even know him yet! It's easy to feel a little helpless at this point, but DeAnna and I believe strongly that God is sovereign in all this. The day we were born we were destined to adopt this little boy, just as the day he was born he was destined to be ours. We have to have faith that he will be cared for and protected until the day we can bring him home. It reminds me of one of my favorite verses, Ephesians 2:8, "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And it is not your own doing; it is the gift of God." It is amazing to me how simple God's plan is for all of us. And we take comfort in knowing that this is the same salvation He offers to every one of us, even a little boy born across the world in China.
And as we appreciate His simple road to salvation, I hope you all enjoy this season as we celebrate the birth of our savior. Let's try to see past the traffic and the lines and open our hearts to the love that He brought into the world.
Merry Christmas!
Ken
Merry Christmas Hortons!
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