Adoption update

Just a quick and exciting update in our adoption process. We found out from our program director on Saturday that our dossier had been sent out to the Philippines on Monday, February 2nd. WHOOOHOO! She apologized for the late notice. She thought she had sent us something that told us that already, I guess. The funny thing was I had just had a week where all I could think about was what in the world was holding up our dossier from being sent because we hadn't heard anything in weeks. I finally realized on Thursday, while working through a lesson for my ladies bible study, that this need to have some sort of control over this process and push my timeline was not relying on God. If anything it was giving Satan a foothold and stealing my joy and hope in this journey that God has laid before us. So I confessed all this to God and asked him (again) to just let me be still, know that He is God, and rest in His plan in His time. Then I find out 2 days later that our paperwork was already on its way. It may even be in the Philippines by now and starting the review process. It brought to mind my Selah song that I have claimed as my personal promise "UnRedeemed". If you haven't heard it, find it online and listen. Powerful message that has helped me deal with 2 miscarriages and the ups and downs of international adoption.
Also for those of you who have asked, I double-checked and our paperwork will NOT need to be translated because the official language of the Philippines is english. This will save us a little time too, hopefully. Our next milestone will come when we get official notification from the Philippines' government that we have been accepted as Prospective Adoptive Parents - PAPs (They are pretty big on their acronyms, I guess.). Our program director says that averages 4-6 weeks, so I'm hoping by Easter.
So this post hasn't turned out to be too quick like I said and thought it would be at the beginning. One last thing, as you think of our family please start praying now for this new child coming into our family because since we are adopting a toddler/preschooler, he or she has already been born and is living halfway around the world. While the Philippines has pretty good orphanages and foster systems in place, our child may still be struggling with the effects of poverty. Just ask the Lord for his/her protection and steady people in his/her life to meet physical, emotional, and developmental needs since we are unable to do that yet.