Dark before the dawn

We're having a hard time right now. Our departure date is rapidly approaching, yet we have no US approval. We feel we're surrounded by darkness. We have no idea when or how we can return home with Kalina. We're faced with silence when we're asking for help. Our minds are racing with questions: What about Nadeem's job? What about our responsibilites at home? What do we do to get home?
Tonight Kalina had a stomachache. For about an hour I carried her around, bounced her, and rocked her with her against my chest. Most of the time she wailed. I was drenched with sweat and exhausted by the time she settled down. It was a frustrating and somewhat scary experience. Normally she's such a sweet little girl. In the middle of her crying spell, the police officer from the passport office arrived to ensure that she is legitimately our child and that we're not trying to obtain a passport for her to smuggle her out of the country to sell her on the black market. The whole time she cried we prayed over her. When I heard that the officer had arrived and wanted to see her, I nearly cried along with her! When we took her to see the officer she was a perfect angel. He quickly viewed us and waved us away. During her crying spell, it felt like it would never end, that I would be stuck like that forever not able to comfort her. This is what our life feels like right now, like we'll be here forever and this trial will never end. However, God sees the big picture. One day we'll look back and know that this was temporary, just like Kalina's crying spell. We're all standing in faith that God will bring us home. What's difficult is to surrender the plan to Him. We don't know the timing; He does. God brought me to this passage in the book Streams in the Desert: "You may have to experience the very worst before you are delivered, but you will be delivered! God may keep you waiting, but He will always remember His promise and will appear in time to fulfill His sacred Word that cannot be broken. It is always safe to trust God's methods and to live by His clock. Difficulty is actually the atmosphere surrounding a miracle, or a miracle in its inital stage. Yet if it is to be a great miracle, the surrounding condition will not simply be a difficulty but an utter impossibility. And it is the clinging hand of His child that makes a desperate situation a delight to God."