Ye of Lil' Faith

So today we received our USCIS 171H. Yay (still not as wimpy was when Ben tweets it)! That means that we are approved by the US government to bring Sam here. It also means that we should be hearing about a possible court date. We are very excited. Very excited. We may even hear next week about when our court date is.

So what is all this then about lil' faith? Guess what also came today the very same day we received our USCIS approval? The original FBI background checks that no one could track or find. For those of you who missed it, we sent our fingerprints to the FBI, and they couldn't find them, so we sent another set at a great expense, but just wrote this it off as peace of mind. So we went for our peace of mind rather than trusting that God would provide. This is something He has done so much throughout this whole process. It is a good reminder that He is in control. Not a judge, a country overseas or our own or even us, because we are not in control. We try, but then we are reminded.

I will be honest that it felt like a little bit of a doubting Thomas moment when opened that package. It also was a little like the original sin in that Carrie said we should do this and I said yes we should. I need to go kick a snake's butt. Do snakes have butts? Not sure. Sorry I am really excited and anyways the point being, we both ignored that God was in control of all of this THE WHOLE TIME. Faith in God is a lesson that we never stop learning.