I tend to complain a lot. If you don't know me in person, you should know that about me. Just take my last adoption post for example. I mean, who would read that and ever wanna talk to me about adoption? It was a downer post, I'm sorry. But it's also real and it comes from my heart, and I want to remember all the ups and downs of this journey, so I am still glad I wrote it.
Someone posted on FB a few days ago about no matter how hard the wait was for the adoptive family, no matter how long and discouraging it is, it still can not compare to the what the child is going through. So much pain and loss and trauma during that time. Wow! Really gives me a new perspective! This is not about me. Yes, someday a once-orphan will call me 'mama', but right now (or sometime during our wait), her young life is going to be hard and she will experience loss. And somewhere across the world is a birth mother/family who is going to be losing a child.
A few of the adoptive moms with our agency have organized a pray-for-Ethiopia group. Ehtiopia's latitude/longitude lines are 838, so they have been setting their alarms on their phones to pray for Ethiopia at 8:38 am and 8:38 pm. Seriously, these are women who have been waiting way longer than they thought they would have to and their response is to pray. I wish that was my first response. I thought about doing this 838 thing, but I leave to take the kids to school at 8:40 and it just seemed like a super inconvenient time. But this week I decided enough with my complaining, if things are ever going to happen in Ethiopia it will be by God's hand. So I set my alarm with some African drums music and when my alarm went off, the kids and I stopped, held hands in the middle of the kitchen and prayed. It was such a sweet time. I got to hear their hearts for their sister and, more importantly they got to express their heart to God about their longing for her to be home with us. I am looking forward to this time each morning. And at 8:38 pm, I am hoping that Chris and I will have most nights where we can pray together.
If your heart is for Ethiopia, you are welcome to join, or you can also pray for us, as I am sure we will be under a lot of spiritual attack around those times each day. Satan does not want to see movement in Ethiopia and he doesn't want to see an orphan with their forever family.
Someone posted on FB a few days ago about no matter how hard the wait was for the adoptive family, no matter how long and discouraging it is, it still can not compare to the what the child is going through. So much pain and loss and trauma during that time. Wow! Really gives me a new perspective! This is not about me. Yes, someday a once-orphan will call me 'mama', but right now (or sometime during our wait), her young life is going to be hard and she will experience loss. And somewhere across the world is a birth mother/family who is going to be losing a child.
A few of the adoptive moms with our agency have organized a pray-for-Ethiopia group. Ehtiopia's latitude/longitude lines are 838, so they have been setting their alarms on their phones to pray for Ethiopia at 8:38 am and 8:38 pm. Seriously, these are women who have been waiting way longer than they thought they would have to and their response is to pray. I wish that was my first response. I thought about doing this 838 thing, but I leave to take the kids to school at 8:40 and it just seemed like a super inconvenient time. But this week I decided enough with my complaining, if things are ever going to happen in Ethiopia it will be by God's hand. So I set my alarm with some African drums music and when my alarm went off, the kids and I stopped, held hands in the middle of the kitchen and prayed. It was such a sweet time. I got to hear their hearts for their sister and, more importantly they got to express their heart to God about their longing for her to be home with us. I am looking forward to this time each morning. And at 8:38 pm, I am hoping that Chris and I will have most nights where we can pray together.
If your heart is for Ethiopia, you are welcome to join, or you can also pray for us, as I am sure we will be under a lot of spiritual attack around those times each day. Satan does not want to see movement in Ethiopia and he doesn't want to see an orphan with their forever family.
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