Interesting week....

Matt and I had an interesting adoption journey last week.  First off, Tuesday night we were having dinner with a work colleague of Matt's in Marian.  When we were finishing up our meals and just talking a bit, Matt's and I's phones start going crazy.  When we finished and headed for the car we checked our voicemails.  We had messages from a gal in our small group and her mom.  That all lead back to a social worker who had a birthmother that needed a family.  We calmed our nerves and called the social worker.  After a lengthy conversation with her we find out that the baby girl's Corpus Callosum did not form properly and would we be willing to take a special needs baby.  I told her that we would need to do some research and talking and get back to her.  This was one of the hardest decisions we had to make.  We have waited so long that we had to set aside our strong longing for a child and look at the "big picture".  After doing some research we discovered that most babies born with this have severe handicaps.  With that in mind we talked and prayed about what to do and when the text came from the social worker Wednesday night we told her no.
Feeling pretty blue and without much hope we carried on into Thursday.
On Thursday in the morning, Matt receives a call from our social worker, Allison.  She told Matt that there is a birthmother who is interested in us and would like to meet.  She too, is having a baby girl and is due within the next month or so.  Wow!  We said no to one baby and the very next day God gives us another opportunity, with a healthy baby girl. 
We will be meeting with this mother on July 8th at 4:30.  We are trying to keep our excitement to a minimum though, because the mother is meeting with us and another family.
We have been waiting so long with very little hope to cling to and now this week we were presented with two situations....God is good.  We know that we may not be picked for this baby girl but it has given us a renewed hope.  Please pray with us as we look forward to the 8th.  Pray that whatever the outcome we will be, we will be able to rest in the knowledge that God is in control of this journey and leading us to our baby.