Truly Blessed Tuesday

I love these new Tuesday posts! 

I love reminiscing on how good God is
and how He provides for us. 

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When we began our first adoption,

we had first signed with agency "A".

We began our paperwork,
decided we wanted to go the Special Needs route,

got our home study done,

and began meeting people who were also 

in the process of adoption.

We met our friends, the Witt's. 

They were adopting a 5 year old girl from China

with agency "A" but had found
her on a Waiting Child list with Lifeline Children Services.

(We had never heard of this agency)
But I had to take a look.
The Witt's were able to get their daughter's paperwork
switched over to Agency "A"
without any problems.

The next Waiting Child List for Lifeline
came out and there 

where we found our Jailyn!

When we called Lifeline Children Services,

we were told that there were 3 families in line to 

look over her file. 

"I'll put you on the wait list - but... 

it doesn't look good."

We waited and waited 

weeks later - 

Karla called us and said,

"I can't believe I'm making this phone call -

but "Savannah" is still available."

(Savannah was the name the agency named her)

"Would you like me to put her on hold for you?"

I said,

"On hold - 'No'

We want her listed as 'matched'!"

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That Monday we contacted agency "A" -
about exchanging paperwork with Lifeline  

and we received the answer,

"Last Friday afternoon we decided not to allow this anymore."

"What?   You've got to be kidding me!"

For three incredibly long days we thought we had 

lost our daughter! 

God showed mercy on us and -

Thankfully, Lifeline was willing to

work with us in order to get us to Jailyn! 

We have been incredibly thankful to Lifeline

for playing this huge part in getting us to our 

beautiful daughter! 

We also used Lifeline to be united with Jorja!

We learned a lot through this journey -

and am so thankful to God for 

bringing our girls home!