Today we received a call from Heaven.

September 6, 2016

Heaven is the name of our coordinator at the adoption agency.  You would think after almost three years of paperwork, deadlines, classes, red tape, hoop-jumping and lots of waiting we wouldn't be surprise to heard the words, "I have a referral for you."  But we were.  Really??  A little Ethiopian boy picked out for us?!  "His Amharic name translates to Prince in English.  He is one year and seven months old, born January of 2015.  He was abandoned at 2 months old and has been in the orphanage since then."

The original call from heaven started so many years ago.  God planted the seed in 2007 when my Dad and I visited several orphanages in Nigeria.  I knew then that if I could adopt a child (or two or three!) from Africa someday, I would.  Fast forward to our first year of marriage 2010.  One Sunday morning during church Dave leaned over to me and whispered out of nowhere, "I think we should adopt a little boy from Africa."  I said, "Okay" and smiled thanking the Lord for putting the same desire in my husband's heart.

So now we pray for wisdom.  We have two weeks to decide whether or not to accept this referral.  I can't imagine that we would say "no," but we will pray that God direct L. into the family He intends for him.  Hopefully that family is us.

{Photos from first trip to Africa in 2007}