Court Date!

Yesterday I noticed that another family had received a court date for April 22nd. I couldn't believe it. I told Brent I was going to pray that we too got a court date for next week. He told me not to get my hopes up. To which I replied, "My hopes are up! They were up for our referral and they are up for this too!" BTW I am a notorious pessimist. So, all this "hopes up" stuff is very unusual for me. I proceeded to do my quiet time and beg God in my prayer journal for a miracle: a court date next week. I was near tears as I drove to work...Knowing that it was possible, sensing that God was stirring this urgency in me to pray because He was about to move, feeling convicted for taking my eyes of God in comparing our journey to others, tired of comparing wait times, vowing to take a blogging/FBI fast for the week. This waiting thing is soooo much harder than I realized.
So, I'm sitting in my dyslexia training, checking my phone quietly every so often to see if Mary had called with news of our court date. It would be pretty unlikely that we would have a court date after only 12 days, as she told us to expect a wait of 1-3 months. But I had that stirring. The same stirring I felt about 2 weeks ago as I began to pray for a quick referral...I checked my phone at 2pm and there was a text from brent: "We have a court date!!! April 23rd!!!!" I couldn't believe it, but at the same time I could believe it. My God can do anything.
I've been learning about God's Sovreignty and how He uses our actions and prayers as a means to His ultimate end. I know that He stirred my heart to pray for a miracle because a miracle is what He had planned. Once again, I'm in awe and humbled at the way God has orchestrated our adoption process.
Thank you to everyone who has been praying for for our little boy. We will continue to pray for his well-being, and a smooth court date (sometimes families do not make it through on the first round).
To God be the Glory!!!!