Well, I've had a week now to think about Ethiopia now requiring two trips and what that means for our family. And I feel like there are some positive things to say about this. With only one trip, I was going to stay home and Greg was going to go with someone else to bring the children home. I felt really badly that I wasn't going to experience our children's birth country and take pictures, etc, from a first hand experience. I am thankful that I will now be able to travel to our children's birth country and have memories to share with them and to write about. I am thankful that I will see where they were staying, and meet the people who were caring for them.
At this point, the best option may be to take Jachin & Josiah with us on the first trip. Of course, taking them with us creates other problems to work out. However, this will make it a family journey. From the beginning, I have wanted this next adoption to be a journey, not just for me and Greg, but for our sons as well. It will not mean the same thing to them. They will not understand everything that is going on. But, they will go on a plane far, far away, to children who have no mommy and daddy or brothers. They will meet their new sisters or brothers. A first trip, with all four of us together, makes this a family journey, not just a journey for Greg and me.
I was worried about finances. I shouldn't have been. God calls us to trust Him. When a Christian couple adopts, it truly is a faith journey. We had 2 families respond to our most recent need, and we are thankful for their sacrifice to help two children come home. God has led us to Ethiopia, and we must continue to trust that He will provide.
Please continue to pray for us, and most of all for our children.
Well, that's enough about that for now. In the next day or two, I will continue to relive in words our journey to Jachin & Josiah.
We are praying for you guys as well.
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