Amazed

I want to write this post, just so I remember how amazed I am today, but I'm so in awe that I honestly don't even know the words to write.

We needed $6,500 by today to pay our agency for our dossier submission fees. Keep in mind that we just paid an outrageous amount of money in early February for our initial agency fees, another huge sum that was due on April 3rd when we accepted our referral and now...we need an additional $6,500 and we were given the due date of Friday by midnight to pay online. If we couldn't pay at that time, it would delay our dossier going to Ethiopia. Ugh.

Adopting again so soon after bringing Kad home was not in our financial plan. For his adoption, we had saved and saved, knowing that we would have nearly two years to pay for his adoption in full. For "Y", that's simply not the case.

"Y" is very literally waiting for us at this point. Her file is ready to be submitted to court, but our dossier needs to be there and translated before we can move forward as a family and get assigned a court date. The thought of ANY delays made us feel sick, but we also didn't have the entire $6500 to send tonight. We feel strongly that we shouldn't enter into debt to pay for this adoption, so we've just been praying that somehow, God would provide this enormous sum of money. I think our exact prayer was, "Lord, please just let money show up in our mailbox without any effort or inquiry on our part."

Well...he did it.

Today, we got a check in the mail for exactly $6,500! The full amount we need TONIGHT to submit our dossier.

We've never been the recipients of such incredible generosity, and it just affirms to us that although we have at times thought about how crazy it is that we're adopting again so soon, we're right where we're supposed to be and doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing.

We've always been told that "God funds what he favors", and this is the first time we've experienced that so personally.

To the donors of this incredible gift....your love for our family and for our little girl is overwhelming and so, so humbling. We can't thank you enough for so tangibly helping us bring "Y" home!