Wow, the past 48 hours has been a roller coaster of emotions! We knew this was the week we'd find out if God felt it was time for us to receive a referral or not this go around. Families in our agency starting finding out their status on Monday..... Around 9:30pm CST, a friend of mine messaged and stated she just got off the phone with Melissa, our social worker, her family didn't receive a referral. Then another friend messaged because she found out her family's status. We really started to wonder why we hadn't heard anything. We requested a phone call for a yes and an email for a no. We kept thinking.... How hard is it to email us... or call for that matter. Needless to say, our anxiety, especially mine was high Monday evening going into Tuesday, October 10, 2017.
I was pretty busy at work, so the day had gotten away from me. After texting with Jim, we worked up the nerve to email Melissa around 2:45pm CST.
Melissa,
Do you have any information regarding who has received referral and who will be waiting for the next meeting? A few ladies I speak with regularly mentioned they spoke with you last evening. They did not give any details.
Jim and I are just anxiously waiting, so we can prepare appropriately.
Jim and Kelly
As I was leaving work around 4:30pm CST, I received a phone all from Portland, Oregon. I immediately knew it was Melissa. She stated, "You received a referral." followed by a quick BUT....
Melissa continued to explain that the Central Authority placed us with a referral match for a little boy that just recently turned 7. Since 7 is out of the age ranger we were approved for through our home study and immigration, we are not allowed to accept the referral. My fear was instantly that we'd be disrespecting Burundi and the Central Authority by turning down this referral. Melissa reassured us they will simply be transferring the referral to another family within our agency that meets the young boys parameters. She stated both Pierre, our social worker in Burundi, and herself will continue to advocate for our family at the next meeting. The next meeting date is currently unknown.
As you can imagine, I was initially heartbroken by this news. We were prepared for a Yes or a No, our emotions were not certain how to handle Yes, but..... After a lot of processing together, emotional eating (my favorite way to handle bad new! :) ) and prayer we are honestly in a good place.
Today is a new day, and we know God has a bigger plan!
Our Child is and will be.......
LOVE,
Jim and Kelly
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