Dear friends! I know it's been awhile since I've posted about our waiting for 'the call' to hear news that two children in Ethiopia have been matched with us and well, there just isn't news to share....we wait...we pray...and we see God working all around us! When we can see and experience the blessings in the wait then I can't imagine the wonderful, God-directed things that are happening that we can't see!
All is going well with movements in Ethiopia. Thankfully other families who had their referrals from the January and February time frames are now getting their court dates and will be ready to travel in the upcoming weeks! More court dates and more children being legally released to the their new families mean new openings that the foster home for new referrals!! We are praying our turn is soon to come.
The kids have really had the referral on their minds and hearts. For about four days straight now Buggy, our six year old, has wore her adoption shirt. Last night her and MJ, the 4 year old, were playing baby dolls with bringing a baby home from the orphanage. Sweet little hearts- it's a long time for then to wait in their child-minded time-frames!
So we ask for continued prayers for the new children, for their paperwork, for all the details of signatures and information to be accurate as not to later cause questions or delays. We pray for the mourning of the birth-parents and the heartaches there.
We ask for prayer for God's continued guidance and peace over us as we wait and trust in His timing.
Isaiah 61:1-3 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the broken-hearted, to announce liberty to captives and to open the eyes of the blind. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of God's favor to them has come, and the day of his wrath to their enemies. To all who morn in Israel he will give:
Beauty for ashes;
Joy instead of mourning:
Praise instead of heaviness.
For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory."
Thank you so very much!
Erin
All is going well with movements in Ethiopia. Thankfully other families who had their referrals from the January and February time frames are now getting their court dates and will be ready to travel in the upcoming weeks! More court dates and more children being legally released to the their new families mean new openings that the foster home for new referrals!! We are praying our turn is soon to come.
The kids have really had the referral on their minds and hearts. For about four days straight now Buggy, our six year old, has wore her adoption shirt. Last night her and MJ, the 4 year old, were playing baby dolls with bringing a baby home from the orphanage. Sweet little hearts- it's a long time for then to wait in their child-minded time-frames!
So we ask for continued prayers for the new children, for their paperwork, for all the details of signatures and information to be accurate as not to later cause questions or delays. We pray for the mourning of the birth-parents and the heartaches there.
We ask for prayer for God's continued guidance and peace over us as we wait and trust in His timing.
Isaiah 61:1-3 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the suffering and afflicted. He has sent me to comfort the broken-hearted, to announce liberty to captives and to open the eyes of the blind. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of God's favor to them has come, and the day of his wrath to their enemies. To all who morn in Israel he will give:
Beauty for ashes;
Joy instead of mourning:
Praise instead of heaviness.
For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory."
Thank you so very much!
Erin
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