Approved

Jennifer,
 Hope you had a wonderful vacation and glad to hear you are home safe and sound.Your packet has been approved by the licensing agent! Her supervisor just has to sign the final license. We should be getting the e-mail with your license any day now, but we know that you are approved! Praise the Lord! We will keep praying now that He will lead and guide as we look for a child to be placed in your home.  Congratulations!
Grace E. Kerr
Foster Care Secretary
The Bair Foundation

While the email is short and oh so sweet, its prologue has been has been long and winding, filled with love, lost pregnancies, uncertainty, hope, much prayer, and finally, obedience.

Jason and I have always believed that God created us for a larger family, but it took us years to realize that the simple way may not be His plan for us.  Clearly, we don't know when or even if we will welcome a little brother or sister into our home, but if being "Approved" means we're "ready"...then I suppose we're as ready as we'll ever be.

So now we wait...joyfully, expectantly, with just a dash of terror...

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. 
(James 1:27)