Friday, May 22, 2009

When your heart is pregnant with an Ethiopian Baby...

When your heart is pregnant with an Ethiopian baby you begin to care more and more about a country that a year ago you knew only from World Geography class. You follow the news of the country and the people who faces once seemed so different than your own begin to enter your dreams each night. The care grows... the prayer grows... the love grows... the HEART grows!
As some of you might know there are some problems going on right now with Ethiopian adoptions. This week I learned many families with referrals are being forced to wait even longer to bring their babies home. They have been given a face and a real child to love deeply, yet because the child was abandoned the courts will not currently hear their case. Oh how this aches my heart! Many times in the last week I have found the deceiver robbing my joy and telling me, “Shelly, you will never be a mommy” or “Your heart is going to miscarry this Ethiopian baby!” Of course these are not coming from the Voice of Truth, but the pain is real. Friends, please keep praying for Ethiopia. There are so many babies (almost 5 million) who long for the loving arms of a parent! Please pray that the government would begin to hear abandonment cases soon and that Brandon and I could begin the process this year! Please pray that the child growing within my heart will not be miscarried by will result in a beautiful child who will one day serve a mighty purpose for Jesus Christ! As will everything, we can trust in a faithful God who hears our prayers!

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