Four days before Christmas we got an email from our family coordinator at our agency, AWAA, letting us know we are now on deck! Honestly, this doesn’t change much for us since we’re in the yahoo group for our agency’s Ethiopia families and already knew (from tracking the “unofficial” list kept by all of us adopting families) that we are near the top of the baby boy list. Number 2, actually. But the on deck email simply tells us that our agency expects a referral for our family sometime in the near future.  The timing is very vague since our agency has no way of knowing when a child’s paperwork will be ready for referral.  We sure hope and pray that our wait won’t be too much longer.

We are now in the stage I’ve been dreading.  The stage where our phone could ring any day.  I was telling David last night how torturous this stage is.  Every morning I wake up with a heart full of hope that perhaps “today will be the day” we finally see our child’s face.  And every evening ends with a heavy heart of discouragement.  Each and every day we pray that we will receive The Call.  And each and every day I have to remember that God’s timing is perfect, even though it hurts.  Please pray for us, friends.  Pray for grace and strength for our tired souls.  And please pray that our child will soon be released from the bondage of paperwork that is keeping us from knowing him.  We are so ready for this stage to be over.

Waiting for His Coming,

Erin