Letting God
"Let God and Let God" I wrote this years ago expressing intense feelings on waiting for our daughter to come home from Ethiopia. We had already adopted a son several years prior. Unbeknownst to us the coruption that was taking place in Ethiopa as adoption began to hit an all time high. I feel somewhere we were caught up in that and my husband and I desperately are searching for the truth.
Nice expression but hard to do sometimes. still very hard to do
I am having trouble letting go today. I fill my mind and hands with a thousand other things so that I am not even to able to hang on to the one who created me and can save me. Even if it is from myself.
List of things to let go:
The idea of having one more biological baby. I can't and I won't be able to. I have to let God. Four years later, I am contending with a six month old biological child, currently screaming because I am blogging. My life is topsy turvey with a new baby I never thought I would be blessed with.
The fact that I lost Judah's babyhood. He was abandoned and I will never have baby pictures or really know what happened to him. I have to let go. I still don't know what happened to him, but just the other day we have decided to finally look. We have a great investagator and we should have at least something in the near future. We also have a friend that has traveld to his region in Ethiopia and she has pictures for us. That is a blessing beyond words when you know nothing about your child.
Adoption is a miracle. It can leave you breathless with anticipation, jittery with excitement, but it can also leave you quesioning everything you know about yourself and your reality. Still does as we have come to learn the not so honest practices our agency used to bring our daughter home. I am questioning more than ever the ethics of adoption. It can leave you helpless and sleepless wide eyed, coffee strung out jumping everytime the phone rings or you check your email. In the end it leads to a child, a beautiful child that has a chance to make an impact on this world because you had the chance to make an impact on them. Adoption takes an exsisting soul and places thier sensitive hearts in your hands. I have empty hands, my little girl I am waiting for has noone, why wouldn't God match us? All these years later, I find out not only does she have a father but more family there than here. It is so hard to know why and even if she was part of something more than ethical. We knew she had a father but that was it. I am longing to know him and ask him some questions. I wander if he is desperately looking for her. As her forever parents here in the USA we are just trying to make sense of it all.
Lord help me to let go and to let you will in my life freely today as I wait, and realize there are things in my life I am yet mourning. Be with me through this time of quesitons and supply me with wisdom and knowledge to not just get through, but to grow. Thank you God.
Kim
Nice expression but hard to do sometimes. still very hard to do
I am having trouble letting go today. I fill my mind and hands with a thousand other things so that I am not even to able to hang on to the one who created me and can save me. Even if it is from myself.
List of things to let go:
The idea of having one more biological baby. I can't and I won't be able to. I have to let God. Four years later, I am contending with a six month old biological child, currently screaming because I am blogging. My life is topsy turvey with a new baby I never thought I would be blessed with.
The fact that I lost Judah's babyhood. He was abandoned and I will never have baby pictures or really know what happened to him. I have to let go. I still don't know what happened to him, but just the other day we have decided to finally look. We have a great investagator and we should have at least something in the near future. We also have a friend that has traveld to his region in Ethiopia and she has pictures for us. That is a blessing beyond words when you know nothing about your child.
Adoption is a miracle. It can leave you breathless with anticipation, jittery with excitement, but it can also leave you quesioning everything you know about yourself and your reality. Still does as we have come to learn the not so honest practices our agency used to bring our daughter home. I am questioning more than ever the ethics of adoption. It can leave you helpless and sleepless wide eyed, coffee strung out jumping everytime the phone rings or you check your email. In the end it leads to a child, a beautiful child that has a chance to make an impact on this world because you had the chance to make an impact on them. Adoption takes an exsisting soul and places thier sensitive hearts in your hands. I have empty hands, my little girl I am waiting for has noone, why wouldn't God match us? All these years later, I find out not only does she have a father but more family there than here. It is so hard to know why and even if she was part of something more than ethical. We knew she had a father but that was it. I am longing to know him and ask him some questions. I wander if he is desperately looking for her. As her forever parents here in the USA we are just trying to make sense of it all.
Lord help me to let go and to let you will in my life freely today as I wait, and realize there are things in my life I am yet mourning. Be with me through this time of quesitons and supply me with wisdom and knowledge to not just get through, but to grow. Thank you God.
Kim
As we start this new journey into finding the truth, I still pray this prayer. We need peace and wisdom as we seach for birth parents in Africa.
