Not the News We Were Hoping For

Last Friday we received an update email from Ethiopia.  We never know what the emails we say, as the circumstances change all the time in Ethiopia regarding adoptions.  But this email hit hard.  When we started this process last February the average time frame for referral (matching us with our child) was 9-12 months, time for travel after referral about a month, and time for second travel 1-2 months after that.  According to the email we received last Friday, the referral time is now taking 11-14 months, time for travel after referral about 4 months, and then another months for the second travel to bring out child home.  Are you kidding me??  This has been some very difficult information to process through.  Thankfully, I have an amazing husband who has let me shed lots of tears and numerous friends and family who have lent and ear and hug.  The hardest part is to think that our child may not be coming home in 2012, when we were so sure that they would be.  We are trying to remind ourselves that the information out of Ethiopia does change all the time and that the timing is still in God's hands.  He hasn't dropped us or our child.  We're still safely wrapped up.  Sometimes, that much easier to hear than others.  Each day we have to wake and decide if we're going to be angry at God, or keep persevering.  I've concluded more days than not, that there's no strength in being angry.  

Please pray for us friends.  For us and for our child.  We can't wait for that day when we are finally together.