Agencies

i love when God shows up and puts His hand in the mix. With our upcoming adoption, there were two things we knew for sure:

* Our child was waiting for us in Ethiopia.

* We'd be using Gladney as our placement agency.

Well, that's changed, and it changed quickly. We ARE still pursuing an adoption from Ethiopia. That will never change. It can't. Not if i want my heart back. You see, a part of my heart is already in Ethiopia. In a place i have never been to. I am pretty certain its a direct result of my prayer that God would break my heart for the things that break His heart. Well, it broke. And a number of those pieces landed in Ethiopia.

What did change was our agency. We got home from work a few nights ago and saw an info packet from America World Adoption Agency (AWAA) by the front door. We read through the info that night, and about their Ethiopian program. Then we watched the DVD that came with it, and we were both very impressed. So much so, that we got out our Gladney folder and started comparing the two. We then decided that we'd pray about it for a while.

The next day, whenever i thought about it, i had a peace about AWAA, which is odd, because i was in LOVE with Gladney, and had known for close to a year that that was going to be our agency. Then on the way home from work i was behind a semi and it had the word "WORLD" on it. Now if you know me, i love signs. And i took this as a sign that maybe we were supposed to use AWAA. After i drove around the semi i got behind a van that said "GATEWAY" on it. And that was just another sign for me. Gateway was one of the agencies they use for their homestudies. Anway, that's just me (jody) being me.

When i got home one of the first things Boz said was that he was thinking we should go with AWAA. I told him i had been thinking the same exact thing. It was something we were both at peace about. So friends, i think we have our agency!!