Pausing and Elephant Eating

Haven't posted in a week ... partly because I really just wanted to pause and let the faith promises and exhortations to persevere that I posted last week really sink in.

There's not much to report at the moment. We're in the same Christmas season hub-bub in which everyone finds themselves this time of year, what with the shopping, decorating, baking, parties, etc. We did get our application for a Shaohannah's Hope grant off last week and that was a great relief to put in the mail. I am not expecting to receive a grant from them because they receive HUNDREDS of applications each month, but I could not overlook them either. The Lord knows.

We still have our dossier packet sitting neatly on my desk in the bedroom. I haven't done a thing working toward it yet. I'm not sure why. I've picked it up to look through the info several times and feel this incredible urge to set everything else aside and do nothing more until this child is home, but it's also a little overwhelming, so I set it back down again and then five days of life go flying by me at an alarming rate of speed.

So ... my goal this week is to simply complete one piece of the dossier. After all, I recently heard another friend/adoptive parent say: "The easiest way to eat an elephant is one bit at a time!"