We are so absolutely blown away by your generosity and encouragement in this process! We've been praying about adoption for a long time now and began the process of agency acceptance in September, so finally being able to confidently share our big news is really exciting. It is hard to put your heart into something while its uncertain, and being accepted into our agency a few weeks ago finally gave us confidence that we could really begin to hope towards meeting our baby in earnest. Still, your response of support has taken that hope to a whole new
... Read morelevel this week! We feel so loved and more than that, we are so overwhelmed knowing how loved our baby already is by you, our dear community!
There is lots of paperwork going on right now - we got sooooooo many fingerprints taken the last couple of weeks that once completed, we will be the safest people to know in America, I think! Also gathering all kinds of certificates, financial documents, and taking a LOT of trainings to have everything in order for the home study. There's so much to do but it also feels great to have something to do besides wait! And of course, there will be plenty of waiting in the months ahead.
So as you pray for us, we hope that you will first always remember our birth mother, and pray that she would be met with the love of Christ every day, that she would be surrounded by love even more than we have been, and that she would be encouraged in the truth of the gospel. For Mark and I, pray for peace and faith as we seek to trust in the Lord for his vision of our family, his sovereign timing and placement of people and opportunities in our path, and for confidence to keep boldly approaching him as a Father who loves to give good gifts and who has a plan already underway!
We love you all and we are so excited to share more of what God is doing in our little world this year. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for meeting us here!
Mark and Danielle
