Hard week

They say, they being other adoptive families that the 48 hour wait or whatever the wait time in their state is before parental rights are signed is the hardest time in the adoption process. Well what do we call the week before? We try not to discuss it because we usually end up saying the same thing "we just don't know". We don't know what she is thinking or what she will do, we don't know when she will call or if she will call. We don't know how to prepare our hearts or minds. I would like to think that I have prepared my self at least mentally, that I'm strong, a warrior, a overcomer but I have moments of weakness, of doubt, of wonder. I have to remind myself this is not my story this is God's story and he knows the end. I am trying to read the last chapter and skip the rest and the rest is life and I don't want to miss out because so many wonderful things happen every moment. We are living day by day.

To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children.  Genesis 3:16
This week and the time up to the signing is our labor pains.