the long journey

Hey friends and family. we are almost to our next meeting with our homestudy social worker. we are at a point where if she signs off on our study, we are about 85% of the way to having our whole dossier completed and ready to send off to our state department, then USCIS (united States Customs and Imigration Services) and then to Ethiopia. Also in this time if paperwork, socialworker meetings, mailing, emailing and phone calls we are also trying to sell our house and move away from our current neighborhood. We have a neighbor or two who dont appreciate a police officer living on their street and it has been made known that they dont respect the police. We are trying to follow God and work in his will with his timing yet that is very hard. Being a police officer i am very controlling and i want to provide my own safety for my family, usually by having plans and guns, but im am learning to let go of it and rely on God. We recently had someone who said they wanted to buy our house. They said they would pay the asking price and they wanted all our apliances including washer and dryer, and all our window shades as well as our curtains. We told them that would be ok, and then after 3 days of not being able to get a hold of them our realtor said they seem like they are backing out. God is in control. i have to keep reminding myself of that, and sometims it is very frustrating to think that things are out of my control. God is in control. With all this going on we are almost to the stage of the adoption where we pay a large sum of money to AWAA (our adoption agency) and a large sum to St. Elizabeth (our homestudy Agency). We are getting ready to start filling out grant applications so we can get some money to send our dossier. We are very excited to be in the next step of our adoption and we are so close to our DTE (date to ethiopia). Once we have sent our dossier on our DTE, we sit and pray and wait for our child or children and just get our home ready for this gift from God. Pleas keep us in your prayers. I (Drew) need lots of patience in all the house buying and selling especially. Brittany would like prayer for timing on the house, finances for the adoption and for smooth sailing with the last of the paperwork. God is in Control.