Please pray for us friends. For us and for our child. We can't wait for that day when we are finally together.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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.
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ReplyDeleteGod will operate on His time. Just keep trusting Megan and the rewards will come! We're praying for you!
ReplyDeleteMy dearest daughter,
ReplyDeleteI read your blog today and have been near tears ever since. The day you wrote this, I had planned on writing you a note of encouragement and didn't get it done! It appears to me that God has lessons for all of us through this process and today for me: when you hear God's still small voice telling you to do something; you need to do it!!
As you know I continue to struggle with God's timing too, and it would be really easy to get angry with the discouraging news out of Ethiopia. If I had my way God would always reward you for your faithfulness with prosperity and protection! But according to His Word He is working far beyond what we can see and He is accomplishing His purpose. Our present difficulties are not the final measure of His blessing and love. Not sure this will make sense; but I found a very unusual analogy of fertilizer that I felt kind of fit the circumstance: "The very stuff that stinks in our life can make something grow out of what appears to be dead." Be confident of God's presence and power and be ready for something bigger than what you or I think is possible. Love ya, Mom