Again....

Since January, Kev and I have both been feeling that we'd be growing our family through adoption once again. We did not know however that it would happen so soon. We deliberately prayed about it for several months and over the summer we decided that we would possibly start a home study next Spring or Summer, not sure if we would go through domestic or international. We thought we'd check out some informational meetings local adoption agencies were having this fall.
Friends of ours pastor a church that last year partnered with Haiti Foundation Against Poverty. Their church has sent several teams to work in Haiti with HFAP and one of my best friends went on one of the trips. Knowing they had an orphanage, I just thought as part of our "research" I'd contact them and see if there were any children available for adoption, or even if Haitian adoptions were possible at this point. The reply was honest and not exactly encouraging, but it gave us something to specifically pray about. So we did.
On Tuesday September 14th I was cooking dinner and while waiting for something to boil, I checked Facebook. There was a post by Mallery Thurlow Neptune, founder of HFAP. She had posted a link to the HFAP blog and I read several posts.
Then I scrolled down and there was a post about this baby boy and a picture...Jivenson. I saw his face and read that post and I knew. I felt so strongly that God had this child for us and us for him.
I immediately called Kevin to come upstairs and see!!! We stared at him and Kev asked if I thought we should adopt him and I said "YES!" and he said OK.
It was so surreal and I couldn't explain it but I couldn't ignore it. I wrote HFAP to let them know that we had seen the post and felt such a stirring that we had to respond; not knowing to what end but that we would be praying for this child and would wait to see what would come of all this.
That following week was filled with flurried emails back and forth to Haiti and an amazing time "meeting" him via Skype. Mallery has sent tons of pictures and even video of him. There have been so many confirmations and things falling into place that we can hardly explain. We have even met another family who is also adopting a child from the same orphanage. They have had a similar experience as we have.
God is up to something and we are beyond thrilled to be a part of it! There are still soooo many unknowns ahead. This is uncharted territory for us all. This adoption is and will be very different from our first experience but we are fully trusting that God has us in His hands and that this is his making, not our own.
I've been clinging to Psalm 119:105 since that first night we saw his picture:
"Your word is a lamp to my feet, a light to my path."
We cannot know the steps we have to take on this journey but God does.... and we walk with great expectation!!
So, here we go!