December 2nd - A snail and KTC

     It's interesting with this process of adoption, at times it seems like things are moving ahead so quickly and then at times they seem to move at a snail's pace. Or at least what we might deem a snail's pace, in the scheme of things it's not really that slow is it. Today we were with a friend from our church and she remarked that a month is not really that long, it goes by quickly really. That is true it does go by quickly but much can happen in a month as well. Take this February for example, we are planning to be back in Indiana for a bunch of meetings/interviews etc... This will all take place over one months time, of course while we are there doing all manner of adoption preparation our lives in the UK don't exactly come to a screeching halt either. This is where being on a team is so important, I've already blogged early on about how understanding and down right helpful and supportive our team has been. They really are fabulous, those of you who know them would surely agree. Anyway we are due to be back in the Hoosier state for that month, and it looks like all the meetings and interviews that we need to have will be scheduled for that space of time. We are really excited about this, it is not cheap as you would expect to hop across the pond for an interview and then come back to the UK. Our concern was if we could not do most at the same time it could become unwieldy (spelling?) hence our question to the specialists and they said sure all that we needed would be fast-tracked into one month span. This news came this week, so ya once again our excitement level grew.
     Changing topic ever so slightly there has been one other confirmation that we had about the timing of us and this process now. Back in the summer at Transform Church camp we were asked if we could help out at the Kings Theological College formerly known as Kings Bible College and do some teaching in November. At the time we said yes not knowing what that meant exactly but realizing that it would probably be our only opportunity this coming college year to be involved. So we took it and after sitting down with Alison and Rich it was determined that we'd be doing a series on the Father heart of God. That is a great topic of course but then we also were given two of the lectures, Earl with the 'Power of Adoption' and Rebecca with the 'Privilege of Adoption'. We were given these titles right around the time of that trip to London in September, so there is some significance there too.

     Isn't it amazing how God works timing together with our daily lives as well. So there we were in September agreeing to speak on these topics and then delivering the lectures the week before and the week of our announcement this past Sunday. We could not have predicted that, we've never been asked to speak on such a topic but yes it was powerful and yes it was a privilege to be sharing about a topic so near and dear to our hearts, and soon to become even more so.