I have so many reasons to be happy and excited today...and I am. But underlying those feelings are also some of longing and sadness. Let me explain...
First of all, a friend from high school and her husband and family are in China right now adopting a little girl. It is their fourth child, second adopted child. I love to follow their story and their pictures and go to their blog/facebook daily (more like hourly) to see what's new. This evening I sat down and saw their trip to see the orphanage where their daughter has been. As I scrolled through the pictures, the one with all the cribs in a room (17 total) just made me break down and cry. I am so glad they have found this amazing little girl and have a great orphanage and adoption agency to work with! But help but thinking of our little boy in one of many cribs in a room. I know our agency only works with reputable orphanages and that the workers there really do love and care for these babies, but there is no way they can ever get enough attention in an orphanage setting. It's so difficult to imagine all the babies in all the orphanages and so many who just need people to step up and take them as their own. It's also difficult that we are ready and willing and able and our baby is somewhere without us right now.
The second part of this is about an email I got from a dear friend today. A friend of hers has been in the waiting process for Uganda and just got a referral today! Praise God for this amazing blessing! Turns out, their family was matched with a little boy who is 21 months old and they were asking for a boy age 6 months - 2 years...hmm...sounds familiar! I am so overwhelmed with joy for this family that I don't even know. But I am also so jealous.
I love our family right now. Jack is at such a fun age and learning new things daily! And we are still a bit short on our fundraising support and still in limbo with my husband's job. I know God's timing is perfect and he already has a little boy picked out for us but it doesn't keep my heart from longing.
First of all, a friend from high school and her husband and family are in China right now adopting a little girl. It is their fourth child, second adopted child. I love to follow their story and their pictures and go to their blog/facebook daily (more like hourly) to see what's new. This evening I sat down and saw their trip to see the orphanage where their daughter has been. As I scrolled through the pictures, the one with all the cribs in a room (17 total) just made me break down and cry. I am so glad they have found this amazing little girl and have a great orphanage and adoption agency to work with! But help but thinking of our little boy in one of many cribs in a room. I know our agency only works with reputable orphanages and that the workers there really do love and care for these babies, but there is no way they can ever get enough attention in an orphanage setting. It's so difficult to imagine all the babies in all the orphanages and so many who just need people to step up and take them as their own. It's also difficult that we are ready and willing and able and our baby is somewhere without us right now.
The second part of this is about an email I got from a dear friend today. A friend of hers has been in the waiting process for Uganda and just got a referral today! Praise God for this amazing blessing! Turns out, their family was matched with a little boy who is 21 months old and they were asking for a boy age 6 months - 2 years...hmm...sounds familiar! I am so overwhelmed with joy for this family that I don't even know. But I am also so jealous.
I love our family right now. Jack is at such a fun age and learning new things daily! And we are still a bit short on our fundraising support and still in limbo with my husband's job. I know God's timing is perfect and he already has a little boy picked out for us but it doesn't keep my heart from longing.
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