Here are a few questions that keep coming up … and our responses.

Since we first announced that we were adopting a child (January 2007), it’s been interesting to hear what questions keep coming up. Here are a few:

“Have you heard anything about the baby yet?”
We hear this question often, mostly from people who don’t have access to this blog. Sometimes we go a few weeks without anything to share, so it makes sense for this question to come up every once in a while. Right now, we’re simply waiting. The next major news we expect is “referral,” which will include the name and photo of our prospective child. We expect/hope to have a referral by Christmas.

“Do you know if you’re getting a boy or a girl?”
This is another common question we receive from time to time. We now know that it’s virtually guaranteed that we will receive a boy. 80% of requests by South Koreans who wish to adopt are for girls. Currently families outside of South Korea who are waiting to adopt a girl are being asked to consider a boy instead.

“Why did you choose to adopt from outside the US?”
This question has been asked a few times. While at first we considered all of our options, it quickly became clear to us that international adoption was the direction God was leading us. We could give a list of reasons but it all comes down to a sense of God’s leading.

Well, we hope this answers a few of your questions. If you have other questions, click on comments and ask away!

We all tend to put off doing things we either don’t want to do or we know will take a lot of energy!

I began my message on Sunday by saying, “Hello. My name is Randy and I am a procrastinator!”

I was holding a copy of my edited proposal draft, which we wrote about recently. I have been putting off making all of the corrections because I know it’s going to require a lot of time and energy. It’s not so much that I didn’t want to do it as much as I wanted to have dedicated time for it.

In my message, I said that we usually get around to doing things when it becomes urgent. Well, this project has finally become urgent. We need to mail our corrected drafts by tomorrow so that our dissertation committee will have time to read them prior to our proposal hearings in two weeks.

I used part of my day off yesterday to complete the corrections. It took about 4 hours, I believe. I still have a little work to do before printing/mailing tomorrow afternoon, but the bulk of the work is now complete. I feel much better now!

(BTW, the point of my message was that evangelism is urgent for the church: “Operatives are needed for God’s search and rescue mission!”)

Well, what kinds of things do you tend to procrastinate and put off?