No news on our Travel Approval. But we continue to prepare for our journey East. I am a little discouraged this didn't resolve itself in a day like Gabriel suggested; but I am not surprised.
I am sound in the decision to travel to China in a little over a week and visit the girls' homeland. This was intended as an adoption/homeland trip, and I know it will be what God has intended it to be.
I was listening to Joel Osteen, a Christian speaker, and he told a story of a man who was appealing for a permit which typically takes two years to receive. The man asked the clerk if there was any way to speed up the process and the clerk stated only through him and he wasn't about to do that for the man. So the man settled down to wait two years.
Six months later the man gets a call to come in and get his permit. He asks the clerk how this was possible. The clerk said he couldn't get the man off his mind. He went to bed thinking about him, woke up thinking about him and throughout the day he was drawn to thinking about him. He was so tired of this man he granted his permit ahead of others and told him to get out of his office and please not come back!
That is my prayer. That the powers that be in China, who have complete physical control over our documents, will either get so tired of thinking of us, or the documents will enter the hands of just the right person to stamp and grant them through! Amen!!!
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