some glimpses of Gotcha Day 6/25/11

GOTCHA DAY 6/26/11...

Be still my heart...that God would give me glimpses into HIS HEART AND place the boys in our family.
I'm really speechless so don't know if more will come or not...GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE!!

WE ARE HERE!!!

QUICK update and test if I'm able to post from email to Blogger....
WE ARRIVED SAFE AND SOUND...Blessed by exit row seats together, a wonderful Ethiopian born gentleman from DC that was a wealth of knowledge and fellow believer.
Guest House is better than last time (which wasn't bad!),but looks like we have working internet!!!
I MISS MY KIDDOS AT HOME (well...spread out all over;o).
Thanks for your emails, encouraging posts and PRAYERS especially! Keep 'em coming! OUR GOD LOVES to pour out more of Himself. Why we experience that so much here is weird, but must be something to do with NOT BEING IN CONTROL?! Loving it...
It's 10:30 am here and we missed a nights sleep. We'll catch a nap and then get picked up to GO GET THE BOYS at 2:30....right when you guys are getting started with your day.
Maybe more tonight depending how our transition goes?? ha...who am i kidding?!!
love from Ethiopia,
cindy

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Elizabethtown: Christmas Eve: "It’s here.   My buddies Cindy and Andy leave tomorrow to go pick up their sons Jacob and Jeremiah from Ethiopia.   While they are there, ..."

It's TIME!!!!

It’s time...I tear up just to write that. It’s time for a new world of ‘unknowns’ to unfold. It’s time to trust in this ‘real’ leg of the journey. It’s time for our boys to come home to their new family...as God ordained from the beginning of time:) IT’S TIME for us to ask you to pray (again)!
So much we need God to do, but nothing that He can’t! We trust what happens is part of HIS plan to point us and others to HIM! With that, here are some specifics we ask you to pray:
--->NEW: my dad is back in the hospital as of last pm. Please pray for healing and the blood clots to break up and for my mom.

We leave Dulles on 6/24 and arrive back to Dulles 6/30 to get home here late afternoon! Already can’t wait for that:)

*Our hearts and protection for Justin, Kaylee Ann and Aliza we leave behind. Please pray for the folks caring for them, safety, wise choices, and hearts to know Jesus' love for them! It will be hard to say bye.
*We arrive Saturday (6/25am) and had not planned to get the boys until Monday am. Now we pick them up Saturday. Pray that we'll love each other well and have enough energy to get thru the first night and then hopefully all rest well??
*Pray for the boys and their receiving of us and our understanding of them
*We’ll also be meeting up and staying with friends of the Fogartys who are there adopting 2 boys (the Cassadas). Pray for connection and encouragement for one another. (No coincidence in God’s timing;)
*6/26 We hope we get to take the boys to worship with us at this fabulous church where we were last time.
*6/27 We’ll have Embassy appt on Monday am w/ them. Not expecting any snags.
*6/28 We will meet with Daniel re: ministry opportunity.  Pray for clarity and our role God has! This excites us!
*6/29 Pray their visas will be ready on time Wed for 10pm departure; Pray for our/their goodbyes at the orphanage; obvious covering needed for 18 hour flight home
*Pray for our adjustment as a family of 7 back home on Thursday, 6/30.
*PRAY FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION FOR THE BOYS! We know it doesn't come overnight, but we know the Lord can make things 'stick' that we can't! This will ease the transition tremendously once we can understand one another:) 

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

WE PRAISE HIM FOR YOU! Truly we are blessed by the body of Christ caring for us in intercession and tangible ways!!! THANK YOU!! To God be the GLORY!!

Letting go...

I'm in 'mode'...for most moments. Unfortunately, 'mode' means less of me for those around me. So, I'm trying to figure out how to get to the place I'm ready to walk out the door (and get each kiddo out the door) before I offer more of ME to my family. It just isn't gonna happen. So today, I'm fully aware that until I walk out this door on Friday am I won't be ready. So, I'm giving in today. I don't know that it's wise to push off my 'to dos', but I do know I'm starting to miss my kids already. It's really hard to have them in all different places where I can't reach 2 of them and they can't really reach me. It reminds me again and again, they're not 'mine' only. Thank you Jesus for reminding me that not only are our kids in Africa safe in your care, but so are the ones we'll leave behind. Maybe not free from injury, sickness or harm, but free from needing ME to be their all in all. So with just a few more days to soak in our time before 'the boys arrive', I pray I'll see chances to let go of 'preparing' and hold on to enJOYing!