Our prayers have included a plea for rain in the last few days. Ethiopia is experiencing a drought and as a result the capital city, Addis Ababa, is having forced power outages. The power outages could last until the month of June and they occur up to three days a week. Normally, something like this would fail to capture my attention. I have the luxury of turning on my lights and watering our plants without much thought to the source.
However, now that our focus is on Ethiopia and our children there, I realize what no power means. It means that our agency is not able to communicate well with the base in the capital city. It means that the courts are not able to function properly and papers for court closings are not getting to the right place at the right time. It means email and other communications are down. It means a whole lot to the people, more than I can imagine. For us, it means a slow up in the adoption chain of events. There have been several families affected by the slow up in communication and many hearts here in the US are hurting and aching to be with their children.
Please, please, join us in prayer as we fight against the evil one who is trying hard to cause heart ache and to stop these precious ones from joining their forever families!