December Wait List Number

Yesterday we received our wait list number for December.  Our official number is still the same as November, #7.  However, since families within our agency communicate with each other, we found out we are "unofficially" #6!  One of the families ahead of us received a referral for their child.  So we have moved up one number!  We're getting closer!

 This January makes 3 whole years that we have been on this journey of adoption.  It was January 12, 2010 when we were accepted into the Ethiopia program with our agency.  It was then that we started fundraising like crazy to get that first amount in so we could begin our home study and dossier paper chase.  Some days it seems like this whole thing will never come to an end....like we will never see our daughter's face...but I know that's not true.  I know in my heart that we will see her soon.  I don't know and understand God's timing but I am choosing to believe that HE is good and that HE is faithful  (and yes, I have to CHOOSE, because many times I don't FEEL like it).  Some days my heart aches because I just want to know her.  It's a strange feeling.  

"I don't know what You're doing, but I know who You are." - JJ Heller, "Who You Are"

Here is the verse we are repeating in our family!
"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:
The faithful love of the Lord never ends!
His mercies never cease.
Great is his faithfulness; 
his mercies begin afresh each morning.
I say to myself, "The Lord is my inheritance; t
therefore, I will hope in him!"
The Lord is good to those who depend on him, 
to those who search for him.
So it is good to wait quietly
for salvation from the Lord."
-Lamentations 3:21-26