We leave tomorrow! Today is filled with last minute shopping, frantic packing, multiple phone calls, checking off list after list, mowing the yard, and making more final preparations to leave. And oh yeah, there's one more thing to do. We haven't even left yet, but we are already exhausted!
(We took a break from all the madness today to shoot the picture of us and our three boys.)
We're not sure which is harder--to travel across the world to get a child or to prepare the other three children to stay at home.
Tomorrow, we get on the plane in Nashville. In just a few days, we will have Benjamin with us there in Addis Ababa. In just a little over a week, Benjamin will call Paducah, KY home!
With each step along this journey, we are continuing to realize that this adoption is not so much about Benjamin as it is about God.
We are finding that there is indeed a hungering for God among folks in our church. Several families are experiencing God more than they ever would have imagined through the process of adoption. We are smack dab in the middle of that experience!
We can't wait to get our hands on Benjamin on Monday, and while we want to get our hands on him, God is the One who has gotten his hands on us!
Many have said to us "What a luckly little boy Benjamin is!" However, if anyone is "lucky," it's the two of us.
We are the ones whose lives are being changed, and we will never be the same.
Indeed, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation" (2 Corinthians 5:17-19).
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