This has been a tough week. I am trying to wrap my head around all that has happened and stay strong. I have to admit, I haven't been very good at "staying strong" the past couple of days. It looks like there is one week left before the courts close for the rainy season in Ethiopia. One week to be assigned a court date before 2 months of silence. Our court date wouldn't be until October and it is possible it may just be for Silas if matters are not cleared up about the closed orphanages. I am praying so much for getting a court date that I am having dreams about it. I pray all the time for Judah's safety and for my friends and their sweet babies who are in the same situation. We just don't know much, and that part is hard.
My heavenly father knows how much we hurt. He hears our prayers and cries. It has been
so encouraging to see how He is working even through all of this. He is working on my heart. I have been
so encouraged by the emails or calls I have had from friends asking how we are doing. Knowing that the babies and us are being wrapped in prayer gives a sense of peace. I have been able to turn to scripture for words of comfort.
3 years..
This past week was our 3rd wedding anniversary. It is so hard to believe 3 years have gone by. I tried to make cake like our wedding cake and set it out with our wedding pictures. We went out to dinner and it was nice to remember that time in our lives.
We are even more amazed to look back on our lives and to see how different it is now than in the beginning. My grandmother mailed us a card that wasn't the normal anniversary card that simply paints the rosy picture...it was beautiful because it reflected that love isn't this picture of hearts and rainbows all the time. It is better than that. This first words of this Hallmark card were, "Love has little to do with moonlight and balconies and everything to do with patience, acceptance, and hanging in there"...love is about having that person to be there when you are having a bad day and who can make you feel better, more like yourself. Love is about making sacrifices and bearing through the tough stuff always. Like our vows said "in the good times and the bad". We are better for enduring both the good and the bad. Through the uncertainty we draw closer together and closer to Jesus. We share this journey.
