Goosebumps

I have goosebumps running up and down my arms {and not just from this frigid weather we're having} thinking about what is going to be transpiring in the next week or so.  THIS WEEKEND, my friend Niki along with 16 OTHERS will be traveling to Ethiopia!  While there, 7 families will be picking up their precious kiddos and taking them home.  FOREVER!  The other 10 will be meeting their children for the first time and attending court dates.  17 families!  Isn't that INCREDIBLE?!?  Not only are all these children being placed in loving, God-honoring families...but taking their place in the outstanding Hannah's Hope {our agency's orphanage in Addis Ababa} will be more children, possibly even my daughter.  It breaks my heart to think of what the move to Hannah's Hope will do on their little hearts {for most of them it will be their 2nd or 3rd move...each time those moves take them away from everyone and everything they have known and grown to love}, but PRAISING GOD that each of them gets the opportunity to receive the amazing care Hannah's Hope is famous for, and to be loved on by each of those special mothers. 

It could be any day now, and it could be another couple weeks yet.  Only God knows.  I am just continuing to rely on HIM for my strength and patience and hope every day until I see that sweet face {and many, many days beyond that, of course}.

"For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.  Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay." Habakkuk 2:3