Good afternoon!!!
We are happy to share that Ethiopia will not be closing international adoption. Praise The Lord!!! There will be changes in the international adoption process but these are being implemented to protect the children's well being. Basically from what I have gathered, Ethiopia is going to get more strict to ensure that unethical practices, outcomes and/or situations will be eliminated. While I know this will make our process more difficult, I cannot argue with added procedures that will protect the safety of the children in Ethiopia. In my eyes, if extra paperwork protects just one child from an unsafe environment than it is worth the extra work on our end.
So where are we 4 months DTE??? Other than new paperwork in the future not much has changed.
But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
Romans 8:25
This basically sums up everything with our adoption. We pray for her, long for her and think of her daily. We cannot wait for the day until we see her sweet face, but until that day, we will wait patiently knowing that God is in control.
We want to thank everyone who has supported us along out journey. We know in our hearts Amira is alive today. She is probably around one year old, although she probably did not celebrate her birthday. She may not even know the exact day of her birth because many of those records are not kept where she is living. How wonderful it will be to shower her with affection and love when she arrives. How wonderful it will be to tell her she is valued and loved; that she is fearfully and wonderfully made!!! But until that day, we will pray she knows the love of her Heavenly Father above and her family in Chesterton Indiana. Until that day...we will wait patiently.
God bless!!
