Not quite there yet...

but getting closer. We were able to get the corrected form notarized and everything apostilled today. Made contact with HS agency and they had it ready to go! Drove up to B'ham to pick up our copies. In the meantime... we found out we need another form completed. Nothing corrected, nothing missed... just a new form to add. We will be taking it tomorrow first thing to be notarized and apostilled. Then copies, copies, copies and off to FED EX. We are up against a deadline of having our paperwork delivered to it's destination on Friday. A friend will be making the trip for their own process and has graciously agreed to serve as escort to our priceless little bundle! We are amazed that this has even become a possibility! Let me remind you... DHR had our HS until late 6/3/09. USCIS has a timeframe of 90 days... yet our paperwork has been processed, we received the approval letter and we are MAILING our dossier (well... after that one little form is ready anyway!)

You know... I've been thinking. There are a lot of people involved in the adoption process. We have come into contact with many different people in our process.. Advocacy groups, HS agency, SW, ABI, FBI, Immigration, DHR, adoption agency and many more still to come as we haven't even left home yet! Many of these people we will never meet. They all hold very important jobs... regardless of their rank/pay/title. They are the process. They hold so much power in their hands while they are holding the paperwork. Do they realize those forms represent a child that waits? Do they realize any delay is another day the child goes without the love of a family? Many I'm sure do. I believe that God has called many to their purpose and they are doing this because they want to help the children. I imagine there are many others that are just doing a job, drawing a check, working on yet another stack of work. Maybe they started out doing it for the children, but along the way lots sight of the goal. Will you join me in praying for the people in the adoption process that may not be 'doing it for the children'? Lets pray that God touches their hearts and they begin to see the faces of these children in that paperwork. Pray they value the children and their role in helping these children come home. Pray they start 'doing it for the children' again...