Is Teresa our daughter?

Since adopting Grace Dallas and I have always said we would like to adopt one more daughter.  Dallas always wonders if the time is right.  A year ago we went through Financial Peace University by Dave Ramsey. It changed our lifes.  We still aren't done but our only debt left is my van and the house.  So we weren't planning to find our daughter yet.  We have been discussing whether we thought she was in China or possibly foster care.  We really wanted to be debt free before starting the process again.

Along came Teresa, a little girl on our previous agency's China Special Focus list.  We first saw her picture on May 11, 2011.  We didn't decide to view her file until May 15.  Unfortunately by the time we asked another family was already viewing her file.  We are now waiting for their decision.  If they move forward we miss the opportunity to have Teresa as our daughter.  We are hoping to hear something at the beginning of the week.

There are several reasons we feel Teresa is our daughter.   She is born the right year.  The boys were born in 1992, 1995, and 1998 and the girls were born in 2002 and 2005. Our next daughter should be born in 2008, right?  She is from the same province as Grace. This is a big one.  Before we saw her file we knew she was living in Beijing but didn't know what province she was from.  We said if she is from Fujian then she is the one.  We were quite suprised the next day to find out she was from Fujian.  The agency gave her the name of Teresa. The day I saw her picture for the first time was the same day my friend, Teresa, received her baby through domestic adoption.

So now we sit and wait and wait and wait some more.  We know if she was meant to be our daughter the other couple will say no but this waiting is tough.  It is like waiting for a call from the doctor's office to find out if you are pregnant.

I decided to title this blog Finding Faith because Dallas and I weren't quite ready to begin this journey again but we know we need to have faith and follow God's direction.  If this is the path we are to go then God will surely lead the way.  Dallas is also pretty insistent that this daughter's middle name be Faith. 

Hopefully in the next post I will be able to answer the question  "Is Teresa our daughter?"