Forward motion?

OK, so it has been a couple of months since we completed our Homestudy; and so far, there hasn't been much forward motion. We took "a couple of weeks" off from the process to pray and seek the Lord's will; and we received some pretty powerful confirmations.

See Melissa's blog entry http://mcclymontfamily.blogspot.com/2009/04/newsy-note.html for all the details on the confirmation(s) we got.

Shortly after this Wednesday night prayer meeting (which has since been nicknamed the "mighty rushing wind" prayer meeting by some in the church), we sent in our application for the agency we had selected. And they never processed it!

Eventually, I contacted them...and they sent us back some various e-mails saying "Are we really sure we want to do this?etc..etc.." And, at this point, I sensed the Lord saying "wait." So that's what we've been doing....for what seems like forever now.

Last week, I decided to contact the agency again...and now the news is that their "waiting children" program has changed, and they can no longer offer the amount of assistance they were offering before; and the restrictions on which children they can take have gotten a lot more complicated. Clearly, this program is a closed door for us now.

And, yet, we're feeling a desire and an urgency to move forward with this adoption.

We could sign with any number of agencies... I don't even know how to choose... We also attended an informational meeting with the State of Texas' "foster-to-adopt" program. We're both uncertain about fostering, and we both feel like the Lord was leading us to adopt from Russia; but we are open to other things if He guides us in a different direction.

So we need your prayers for wisdom and discernment and help in making such a big decision. We seem to be stuck in a "rut" and I'd very much like to get out of it and experience some "forward motion."