How they love to be their Daddy’s fancy shoes!!

As Blake and I continued our drive home yesterday after asking for prayer from you all, we were so blessed!

Blessed with support.

Blessed with prayer warriors for friends!

Blessed with technology that allowed a post to be made, and then comments, e-mails and texts to be read as they were written in reply.

So blessed!

I opened the scriptures as Blake was driving and read. Out loud.

We prayed together too. Out loud.

Then I turned to Ecclesiastes to share something with Blake from a sermon the kids and I listened to this week.

While doing that, I glanced down and saw this verse highlighted….

“Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.” Ecclesiastes 7:8

God’s truths penetrate your soul if you let them.

Thank you, Lord, for this timely truth.

We stopped along the way for this yumminess! Sipped it the rest of the way home.

The scenery was beautiful, even though the roads were SO sloppy.

I was so glad I was not the one driving. Country living is so much more quiet! As we headed into the city during rush hour, it was bumper to bumper traffic, and often we were sitting still.

We made it home safely, and the kids and I had a quiet afternoon.

Thank you for praying with us. Thank you. Please keep praying with us! We are excited to watch the Lord move through your prayers, and see how He continues to write the story of our little man Tate!

So, here’s the thing.

We got up at 2 a.m., left the farm at 3:25 a.m., and drove over four hours to the Homeland Security building in Milwaukee.

Why?

Because the minute we said “Yes, Lord” about a little boy half way around the world, in our hearts he became our son.

Our son, Tate Owen!

And we are more than happy to follow all the rules to bring our son home.

But sometimes the rules are hard.

Sometimes we want to just cry out to the Lord we said yes to…”Why does this have to be SO hard??”

The officers today told both Blake and I that they would probably be seeing us back…..because our prints were not taking well.

As we left that building just a bit ago, I was in tears.

Not only does that mean another crazy trip like this one…but more time before we can bring Tate home.

We are already against a tight timeline before Grant turns 18, or everything stops while we get him approved as an adult in our home.

Which means more time.

More. time.

This is the reality of our hearts.

And we need our prayer warriors to pray.

We would love nothing more than to know prayers are being said over these fingerprints from today, and our timeline, and then give God the glory for answers to those prayers.

Please, please pray with us!

For Tate’s sake.

Tomorrow morning at 3 a.m. Blake and I will be pulling away from the farm and heading to Milwaukee to have fingerprints taken for Tate’s adoption!

Our appointment is at 8 a.m. and it is a four hour drive one way.

When we look at this though….

…..it seems like the absolute best way to spend the day tomorrow!

Will you pray with us? For travel mercies and a speedy approval from USCIS so we can get that Dossier on its way to China!

We love you, Tate Owen!!!