$300 - Application Fee
$40 - Fingerprints Taken
$80 - Processing Background Checks
$120 - "Parents In Process" Parenting Classes
$2,500 - Adoption Study
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$3,040 - Grand Total Paid Out So Far
...and to be completely honest, it actually feels good. There's so much junk that people (including us) spend money on to either impress people or make comfy lives even more comfy. And it's so stupid when other people (including innocent children) go without such basic needs met. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing inherently evil with a fun purchase and those purchases are more than ok to enjoy. I quite enjoy clothes shopping myself :). It's just that in our culture, so many of us do it soooooooo much of the time! You can only "treat yourself" because "you deserve it" so much before it becomes a sickening over indulgence. Learning not to love money is almost always a struggle. After all, with money comes security, power, and proof of our success... Or does it? How many people have we seen crumble to ruin when they "had it all"? I offer up the notion that nothing of this world can truly promise us those things.
"Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Hebrews 13:5)
Praying that more money comes in so that you can complete this worthy process. The two young ladies in our home are proof that God wanted them here for His purposes! The process was to test our faithfulness and to save them. God has used and will continue to use their witness in big ways. Blessing to you <>< Mom
ReplyDeleteWell Said! Loved that! Read it aloud to my hubby, beautiful said Kimberly - it is so sad that we all have so so much, and there are those as you said that go without basic needs.
ReplyDeletePraying for you guys in your process!