CCAA Update

Hello everyone.

I found out today that the CCAA has only gotten about 14 days farther than last month with their completion of adoptions. They are up to September 8, 2005 from August 25th last month. It is disheartening because it really means that we may be waiting even longer than NEXT Christmas. There were SO MANY other ways we could have gone that would have been quicker or possibly easier. I don't really know how to feel about the wait time.

However, I do know that God has Hannah's timing in mind. She's not born yet and possibly won't even be next year. I hope we get her before I turn 40 (Dec. 08)!!! I'd also work on a domestic adoption (at the same time as the China adoption) because it'd mean we'd have at least 1 of our children next year, but our agency doesn't allow us to work on other adoptions while we are working with them......... :(

God's timing is perfect, even if we don't always see it that way. I pray that we are able to get Hannah quickly. It's bad enough that we've been waiting almost 5 years just for a biological pregnancy, while all of my relatives CONTINUE to get pregnant and Gary's neices and nephews are starting to have theirs. Another wait feels like an eternity and an unfair fate for us. How many friends and relatives do we have to watch with their children before we are able to have even 1 of our own? I feel like Hannah or Rebecca (in the OT), when they were being looked down upon because of their infertility. With adoption the mockers have an opportunity to say that I'm just rushing God or that I'm forcing a situation. With this wait, it just makes it SEEM all the more true. They continue to laugh, and I continue to cry out to God in prayer. Please pray for me.

Terri