At 2 months: tapas

So, as of today, we've waited two months for our child from Ethiopia. Depending on how you consider it, two months has been a short and a long time. Sigh. A family, that was matched recently with its son, waited just over two months: This sounds good. But when you consider when we submitted our first dossier to Albania, we've now waited a year. God knows.

In other news, my very thoughtful cousin recently sent me a surprise package which included a book... my new favorite, which is perfect for our situation. It's called A Mother for Choco, by Keiko Kasza. Read it!

And yesterday, some friends of ours gave me a list of Bible verses having to do with children and our hopes for them as Christians. I have been wanting a relatively short list, all put together in one place. (Yes, the Bible itself is one such place, I know! Just not so 'relatively short.') Now we have one.

And, ay! I almost forgot: Yesterday was New Year's Day in Ethiopia. 10 September. It's now the year 2001 over there. Hm... is there anything that I'd like to redo from the year 2001 that I can take care of while I'm over there? I'll be thinking about that!

So, a little bit of everything for today.

Please pray. Please pray that our child and his/her birthparents have food and a place to stay and someone to love them. Please pray that the birthparents have peace about the decisions that they're making. Please pray for the birthparents' and our child's salvation. Please pray that the adoption is all said and done by the end of December of this year, so that we don't have to redo all of our immigration work, which expires in January. Gracias.