One Year

It's been one year since we first were placed on the waiting list.
We were so excited as we moved down little by little over the next few months.

Then there was a dry spell.

Months went by with no children being placed and us waiting longer and longer to bring our child home.

Sometimes I wonder why this process has to be so long.
Sometimes I wonder if it will ever end.
Sometimes I want to give up.

We have moved up 45 places since we were put on the waiting list and still have a long way to go.  Every month we eagerly await the news on our progress and it's so hard to open the email only to find not much progress has been made.

And when Asher makes a paper airplane and is ever so cutely flying it around then exclaims with a big smile, "This is the plane we are going to fly in to get my little brother!", my heart melts.  It melts with thankfulness that our son is excited about having a new brother (or sister...but he says it's a boy and his name is Rizo...Rizo??  Don't ask...).  It also melts with urgency--our child is somewhere out there and I'm ready to welcome them home!

I tell you all of this not to be dramatic or complain, but to ask you to pray for us.  We need wisdom, endurance, patience, joy, hope...

I read a blog of ours from this time last year.  I was so hopeful!  I was keeping an eternal perspective. I'm asking for you all to encourage us in this heavenly perspective and pursuit!  You all have been so great through this journey thus far.  Remind us to keep our heads up and seek God's will.  We love you all and are thankful for you.

"I press on towards the goal to win the prize 

for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus...  

But our citizenship is in heaven. 

And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 

who by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, 

will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body."

Philippians 3:14, 20-21