Life Unexpected

I have had a lot of people asking if we heard back from our agency yet.  Well, the news is not that great.  They have extended the wait time to 22-25 months for us and have told us that we should NOT expect a referral in the year of 2012.  We are still processing that news.  Yesterday, one of my sister's friends found out that their paper work did not make it to the right place in Haiti, thus missing an important deadline for paperwork before some major changes are made in the adoption process there.  There is a huge possibility that their adoption will not happen...at all.  They have been dreaming and praying for their child for a long time. I woke up this morning with this verse stuck in my head..."Jesus replied, 'What is impossible with men is possible with God (Luke 18:27)."  There has been a new song on the radio by Mercy Me, "You are I Am."  Here is what the chorus says: You're the one who conquers giants You're the one who calls out kin...

This past Saturday, Nate and I did what we always do...got up early and hit the yard sales.  I had checked the weather for the day and it was to be clear, sunny skies all morning with big storms hitting around 2pm.  We are in the habit of taking our Jeep Wrangler when we yard sale and so this morning was no different.  However, because there were so many sales, we felt like we shouldn't take the door to the Jeep, because they would just take up space, so we left them at home...and then we unzipped the windows off...and rolled up the back window...Yeah.  Let's just say the storm decided to hit when we least expected it, out of no where, just when we were almost home.  We were literally about a half mile from our house.  Well, there wasn't a whole lot we could do other than wait it out.  We were stuck at a light, it was monsooning (I am making that word up) all around us, it was raining sideways into our Jeep soaking us completely, there was a sign blo...