OH my GOODNESS!!

Otherwise entitled, If God is For Us, Who Can Be Against Us?

Not bureaucratic processes, that's for sure!

We were really encouraged on Sunday by a great sermon about how God answers prayer, time in a Sunday school class that is All About prayer, and finding out how many people have been praying for Tim's fingerprints.  Yesterday, of course, we were thrilled to find out that Tim's fingerprints had been successful.  Then today we got a call from our agency.  Our agency case manager (or whatever her title is) had sent an e-mail to the USCIS yesterday asking if they would kindly waive policy and assign us an officer now instead of waiting until our turn in line.  She wasn't very optimistic that they would choose to do so, but thought it couldn't hurt to ask.  Well!  This afternoon I got a call from her saying that not only do we have an officer, but our case has been approved, the approval has been electronically forwarded to our agency, and our dossier can be on its way to China this afternoon!!!!!  AND the officer instructed us to make sure that our next round of immigration paperwork goes directly to her, so it can be processed as quickly as possible.  I am beyond thankful that we were assigned to this particular officer (or that she chose to add us to her caseload, I'm not sure which), as she did NOT have to go out of our way for us like she is.

Two conclusions:

God really wants our son to have a family.
God really answers prayer!!