What a day!

Yesterday was quite the day of emotions. We were called by our home study social worker because she had a few questions. First and foremost she wanted to know if our fingerprints thru BCIS were in. They are not. Then she proceeded to tell me that her superior, after review of our homestudy, did not feel comfortable with us adopting 4 children. She had lots of questions that she wanted our social worker to answer. Her concerns were of the emotional toll that it would play on our existing children, the negative issues that will arise, if we realized what we would face, etc. Anyway, my basic response was, "We do not know all the ways we are going to care for "issues" when or IF they arise. But, we know that the Lord wants us to adopt these children. We will do all we can to help them if there are any problems, just like we would do for our own. There is not a book out there that will prepare us for what is ahead outside the Bible. The Lord will get us thru as He has called us to this." What else should we have said? Our social worker was satisfied and said she would be an advocate for us. We were a bit nervous!
A friend of our called, Terry Boesing. She called to ask for prayer and then I shared what had happened with the agency. She prayed and after a 30 minute + conversation, she said the Lord told her about "fingerprints" and said it must be the fingerprints of God that is ..... I did not even hear the rest. I stopped her to say that the first thing the social worker called for was our FINGERPRINTS. What she heard from the Lord about fingerprints was for us. It was confirming that the Lord is in control and our fingerprints that we have been WAITING for are not in our control but HIS. It is all in his timing.
The social worker called back and said after speaking with our agency and me, they will approve us to take in 4 children. Praise the Lord! WE know they are ours. Please Lord get them here quickly.