It is Good Friday in Ethiopia. It is the Pascal week in the Orthodox religion of Ethiopia, where they celebrate the week of Easter. For more information you can visit Yellow, Black and White where they summed up the week. But it was also a good Friday here in America! Four families received referrals today and there are hopes of at least one or more next week! The Gibson Family (girl 3 1/2 months), the Cox Family (baby boy), the Ducommun Family(girl 6 weeks) and the Ord Family(2 yr. boy) had very, very happy news! For several hours I just kept hitting refresh on our chat group page...it was a nice ending to our week.
Sometimes the adoption is so overwhelming. Every aspect of it. From raising the funds, to filling out all the paperwork, to the long months of waiting...and waiting some more. Then when we'll finally be able to travel and pick up our children we'll be learning to adjust to three children and attaching to our two new ones. Sometimes I think we are totally crazy and wonder if this is all a mistake. Our life is great now with one, wonderful child. Could we have read all the signs wrong? How are we going to attach to two new kids? Most of all how is our extended family going to attach to them?? Our grandmothers grew up in totally different times then we did. And how are we going to keep the Ethiopian culture alive and special to our kiddos? I could go crazy with all the questions that pop into my mind.
And then I remember, as my new friend Patty from Maine, reminded me...God made the entire universe and all these details are probably not a big deal for Him. He is totally capable of working out all this. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has called us to this adoption. No matter which way we turned it seemed like we were being nudged towards it. God is working out His will in our lives and His grace will sustain us!
Here is another video from a family who adopted two children just a couple months ago!