Waiting Again

I know my last post was so enthusiastic about the future and potential travel and how things would be moving along for us.  Well, as we anticipated, we are waiting again for things to move in Ethiopia.

Currently, all of our paperwork has been submitted to court. Everything is correct.  Everything is up to date.  It's sitting on someones desk.  This is the kind of thing that makes me want to rip my hair out.  For the previous several years, when someone gets to this point in the process, there typically has been somewhat of a predictable timeline.  (I outlined this in my previous post.)  Once submitted to court, a family usually hears about their first court date within a week or so.  We are on day 12 of not knowing anything.  I've heard from some people with other agencies who are also stalled at this point.  And unfortunately, as with so many times before, there is no end in sight or idea of how or when we might progress.  It seems like it's a matter of when the proper authorities just make up their mind that they want to move our case forward.

So our nightly prayers are for the person who has control of our file - that they are moved by the Spirit of God to process our case.  Please continue to pray specifically for this for us.

In the meantime, we are in full swing basketball season at our house.  Which means faithful practice and playing. . . even in the snow!