Those are the only two words I have been able to use lately in regards to the world of Ethiopian adoptions. It's like watching paint dry, though I will take slow movement over no movement. Just this week our agency gave out 2 more referrals. Even though we are so far down the list it hardly makes a ripple for us, I still get SO overjoyed each time I read the posts on our agency's site from the new parents. I get chills every time I look through photos of their precious children. And I cry every time I watch one of their meetcha and gotcha day videos. (I dare you right now to watch one of those and not cry). Families are still traveling for court dates and thattookforevertoget embassy appointments. Still, it is all delivering something so needed for so many families right now - hope. That's what you cling to, the hope that you will see that face someday. I'm past guessing and worrying how long that will be (cause it's gonna take awhile if I haven't mentioned that yet), I just want to know it will happen. That we will be boarding a plane to Africa to meet a child that God has known long before we ever did. We don't have that guarantee, but we have hope.
"Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD." - Psalm 31:24
"Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the LORD." - Psalm 31:24