Help me to trust in Your perfect timing...

Abba, please help me to put all my trust in You and Your perfect timing. I so need to practice patience, yet I feel the stresses of everything that needs to be done over the next couple of weeks if we're going to have a real chance at adopting Bonnie.

Well, I heard back from our caseworker. She said that we just need to keep pushing to get our documents in and she's going to try to expedite our home study so that we have a chance at Bonnie. She said that once a child's picture is already on the website, they've already begun collecting home study reports and if they feature her on the news, that's only going to bring in more. She told us to just keep the documents coming forward that they need and to schedule the appointments that we need for the home study as soon as possible...fingerprintings, phsyicals, background checks, and she told us to let our references know not to sit on getting their papers back in so that we can get our home study completed. She said someone would be calling us this week to schedule that...but we just need to make sure that we pick a date that we're likely to have all the documents that we need. Andy has asked me to wait until after next week as they're moving for work. I have to have time to get us in for our physicals and we still have to make an appointment for the fingerprinting to be done...and we have to get the cats in for the vaccinations as well. Not to mention, we still have to figure out how to get our background checks from MI and IL. So, I'm thinking that our home study isn't going to be able to be done for another 2-3 weeks anyway. She said that once the home study is done, she'll try to expedite the report so that we can fax that in for Bonnie. She said that it just depends on the timing of when Bonnie's case worker decides that they have enough home study reports to find a good fit for her. I feel like so much has just dropped on me...I can feel the pressure building...but yet I also realize that some of this is totally out of my control...I just have to do the best that I can and hope that we still have a chance at adopting her in the end of things. I have to trust that God's timing is perfect and that He knows what is best for not only us, but for Bonnie too.

I plan on getting our application turned in tomorrow along with our affadavits to get our criminal checks here done and then we have to call and make an appointment to get our fingerprinting done once the criminal check results are back....