Waiting...

The Crowes seem to be waiting on a lot these days...right now the list includes:

1. A permanent job for Andy
2. A closing date for our house
3. The process in becoming foster parents

Though Andy continues to be thankful for the employment he has now, we're both anxious for a permanent job (whether at his current location or somewhere else) to come our way soon. In the meantime, we are so thankful God continues to provide.

"And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:19

Everything seems to be finalized and now we're just waiting on a closing date to be set by our bank for our first home!! We are SO beyond ready to move out of the apartment and into the house. Of course, being a master planner, I'm getting very angry that the bank is messing up my perfectly thoughtout timeline for the move. We're trying to coordinate painting, pulling up carpet, packing up the apartment, moving, etc. and it's aggrevating when things don't go as planned. But, I just keep trying to remind myself not to fight against the minor roadblocks. God's timing is perfect and if that means my timeline is offset by a few weeks, well then I guess that's how it's going to be :-).

We continue to move along in the foster care process. We've completed the first two of three training sessions and finish up the third next week. Our application is in and one of our references has been contacted. I'm planning to follow up with the local DCS office today about when we can expect to be assigned a Foster Care Specialist, who will be our go-to person. Today we're completing our fingerprinting and then the only thing left is the stack of paperwork I mentioned in a previous post (we're working on that veeeeeery slowly, hoping to knock out a lot of it this weekend) and the homestudy. Of course, we have to wait to move into the HOME before it can be studied, but that should be our last piece of the puzzle!

In our frustration and impatience, it's good to be reminded of some beautiful truths within Romans 8:

I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

We know that the things we are waiting for, including fun things like our first home, and unimaginable things like our babies are sweeter than we could ever imagine. May God calm us as we wait and bring us our children swiftly.