"Sometimes I would like to ask God, why He allows poverty, famine and injustice in the world, when He could do something about it... but I'm afraid He might ask me the same question."
-Anonymous

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

eden :: 16 days left {as of tomorrow}

if we are *friends* on facebook, then you have seen me post about sweet eden. she is celebrating her 1st birthday tomorrow. in uganda. without her family. and she is fighting off the measles. 

her family had to say goodbye to her back in November and have been fighting to get her home ever since...you see...my dear friends, Lindsey and Ryan were granted Legal Guardianship of Eden mid-november but then got held up at the embassy. eden did not receive a visa but instead her file was sent on to nairobi for further investigation. you know, to make sure everything was in line...well i can assure you..this sweet girl should be home. 
she is an orphan. 
by definition. 

the family had a timeline to get everything turned in... everything was turned in, yet when the timeline was up, the family was denied. again. the family was given another timeline. 

this time, a much shorter amount of time to get even more info..

now, we sit with 16 days left (as of tomorrow) and huge things need to happen. there is a meeting in uganda that is taking place at 9p (pst) which could be HUGE for this sweet family. please pray that the right people have soft hearts and clear minds. 

that the truth would win. 

that her itty, bitty body would heal from the measles. 

that her family stateside would be filled with supernatural peace. 

and that sweet, baby eden would be granted a visa. 

so that she can come home.
where she belongs.  forever.

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{for more of the story, go here}


update :: the meeting went so well!!! hearts were softened and truth was spoken!! keep praying for this coming week..another meeting is taking place..
i know God is going to blow us away with this ending!!!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

so right.

we landed in uganda 1 year ago today. hard to believe that one year has passed yet we have only been home for 11 days. the past year has been filled with so many good times and hard times..times filled with anxiety and frustration and times filled with hope and laughter.

i am having a hard time processing all that we have endured the past 12 months because the days were filled with so much emotion. so many good and bad things. so many sweet people that we now have said goodbye to. and to be honest, there hasn't been a whole lot of time to think through things since we landed on US soil.

my time here has been spent trying to help the littles adjust to our new life at home.
the life we longed for.
fought for..hoped, wished and prayed for.

it is a very odd feeling to fight for something for so long and long for 'home' for months on end and then we get home..only to realize that we had made a 'home' for ourselves in kampala..we created a home out of necessity ...  our 'home' may have moved a billion times during the past year and we may have been living out of suitcases the entire time but it was home because our sweet little family was together....i am thankful that this transition is harder than i thought it would be because i think it means that we made the most of our precious time in east africa. it feels right that we sunk down and let our roots seep into the ground. it feels right that we know so much about our babies' first country..it feels right that we had to make our home in their country..that we experienced what they knew as home as our own before bringing them to ours. it feels right that our hearts are forever linked to the country that has so graciously allowed us to care for two precious children that we get to call our own.

what felt wrong** for so long feels so right now and for that..i am so thankful.

**wrong::in the sense that it wasn't what we had planned..not what we expected. not in the bad sense of the word...y'all know we love Uganda and our time there!

Sunday, March 4, 2012

**i'm cold**

good thing it's warming up around here because i don't think i have ever heard the phrase, "i'm cold" so much since being home. 

seriously. every 5 minutes, one of the littles exclaims, "i'm cold!!" ... "mama, I"M cold."" ... "i'm COLD, momma!!" 

oh the sunshine...and it is a good thing we are in the flight path for the airport..gives my littles something to do during the day while they are freezing in the cold! 

can you hear them yelling, "BIG jet!!!" in between the "i'm cold!!!" ... ???

well that pretty much sums up my day my day..
and i LOVE it!!