Time for a quick update ya'll. This was recently posted by our agency, and will give you all something to pray about for us....
"In Congo, things are progressing, but slower than we had hoped. Some cases are in court and others are waiting for more documents to begin the court process. We are not yet sure when the first children will be ready to come home from Congo. Presidential elections in Congo will be on November 25 and it is possible that things could be affected by election events. Again, a need for prayer for peaceful elections and peace after the election time!"
Please pray that the process will begin to move more quickly with the documents being processed and the court procedures progressing with no trouble from the elections. We want to bring our little one home very soon! Please pray, as this waiting is torture. Thank you!
With Love and Hope,
Dan and Jen
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
UPDATE! (not what anyone expected)
Well, this week has certainly been full of emotions, twists, and craziness, and once again, it is very obvious that God’s plans are not our plans, and his timing is not our timing.
This week we were blessed so much by the community coming together and showing love and support for us and “our” twins. We were certain that God was working everything out and clearing the way for our dreams to become reality! He was, but not in the way we would have hoped. We spoke with our agency yesterday, and we are not able to adopt the girls at this time (it is not our agency’s fault, it is just for a variety of reasons that we cannot go into). This is a crushing blow to us. We cannot say enough how hard it is to set your heart on someone so dear and beautiful as these girls, make plans to bring them into the family, share the joy and struggle with all of the cyber world, watch everything seem to come together, and then lose all of this. It is heart wrenching.
BUT, we have been told from day one by our agency that this international adoption journey is not one where we will be able to get comfortable in “certainties.” There were constant reminders that the children we pick may not be the children we bring home. The children we claim may only be in our lives for a season just so we may pray for them and love them and ask others to do the same. So in the back of our minds, we were prepared... but not totally. How can you be? In America we have come to simply expect plans to be fulfilled in a timely manner. But this is just not so... in either God’s world or the world of adoption.
So we will not be bringing home twins. What is God thinking???? This has had us in mourning since yesterday, and we will continue to mourn them. However, the Bible promises that while sorrow may last for the night, the joy comes in the morning...
So we are very thankful that God chose to immediately give us a beautiful, shy, and sweet little girl currently named Titina! She is between 3 and 4yrs, and we have “accepted” her referral right away, with no delay, thanks to the donations that so many of you gave! We were able to get right on it! So we are VERY excited begin making new plans for her. She has been on a “waiting child” list for some time now, so we are very happy that we can free her from that and give her renewed hope as she gives us renewed joy.
We say this with caution however, knowing now from experience that anything can happen... we still have court processing and legalities in Congo to get through. We still have 6 months of “wait and see.” BUT we are farther along now with Titina then we were before with the twins, so praise be to God!
Right now we are learning so much about God’s sovereignty and our trust. And let us tell you, these are not comfortable or easy lessons. They are painful, frustrating, and rocking our world. They are showing us just how much we DON’T trust God enough and how much closer our hearts need to get to him. All that we want to ask is WHY LORD? But there are no straight answers from God, it seems. We know that we will see the beautiful and purposeful design in hindsight, but we just can’t see it now. This is just life.
But there is joy and hope, and that hope, through Jesus, is Titina!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Fundraising Update!
For all of you who have been following our story via this blog, we wanted to give you an update on our fundraising. Miraculously, we have raised $4,500 in 5 days simply through the donations of friends, family, and people who we have never even met (some even from other countries)! It has been a beautiful outpouring of grace and love, and we are SO INCREDIBLY THANKFUL! Now we are only $1,500 away from our goal with 2 days left to raise it. We are fully believing that this will be possible! Miracles can and do happen every day.
As we continue to wait to see God's will unfolded through all of this, we have been praying a timely prayer for patience. (view the prayer here: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/scottysmith/2011/10/12/a-prayer-for-impatient-waiters-like-me/ )And we are praying it on repeat!
It is a hard thing to wait on God's answer, especially when it has to do with something so heart wrenching as your children. We are sure that many of you out there know exactly what we mean because of the situations you may have gone through with your own children... times when you felt completely powerless to decide the outcome and just had to leave it in the hands of God. This is where we are. Not to mention the steady influx of emotion tied to being a mother and bonding with your child, albeit only through a picture. Pictures are powerful things! And yet our adoption agency continues to remind every family that adoption is most of all an adventure, and sometimes things don't work out as you thought they would. One family in our group has already experienced the loss of the child they were in the process of adopting. The heartache that is possible here is all too real. So that is also in the back of our minds as we continue to run towards the goal of our twin daughters. So we ask MOST OF ALL for your prayers that the rest of this journey - fundraising and everything in between until the final trip HOME - would go smoothly and successfully! No roadblocks! Amen!
Again, we are so thankful for the provision through the open hearts and hands of so many around the world and around our own community. You all are awesome, and we pray that you will be blessed ten-fold for what you have sacrificed to give on our behalf!
So for now... we wait. Sometimes patiently, some times not so much! But we are waiting and laying it before God nonetheless.
If you have not donated yet and would like to - we are SO THANKFUL for every little bit - you can do so via our pay pal link in the top left corner of this blog. If you missed the post below, our vision was that each person would only have to give $10 if we got enough people involved. Now we only need 150 more people to donate $10 in order to be fully funded to accept the referrals for our girls! So amazing!
You can also keep track of the progress by viewing our facebook event page at: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=266437166730425
Thanks and MUCH LOVE,
Jen and Dan Shultz
As we continue to wait to see God's will unfolded through all of this, we have been praying a timely prayer for patience. (view the prayer here: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/scottysmith/2011/10/12/a-prayer-for-impatient-waiters-like-me/ )And we are praying it on repeat!
It is a hard thing to wait on God's answer, especially when it has to do with something so heart wrenching as your children. We are sure that many of you out there know exactly what we mean because of the situations you may have gone through with your own children... times when you felt completely powerless to decide the outcome and just had to leave it in the hands of God. This is where we are. Not to mention the steady influx of emotion tied to being a mother and bonding with your child, albeit only through a picture. Pictures are powerful things! And yet our adoption agency continues to remind every family that adoption is most of all an adventure, and sometimes things don't work out as you thought they would. One family in our group has already experienced the loss of the child they were in the process of adopting. The heartache that is possible here is all too real. So that is also in the back of our minds as we continue to run towards the goal of our twin daughters. So we ask MOST OF ALL for your prayers that the rest of this journey - fundraising and everything in between until the final trip HOME - would go smoothly and successfully! No roadblocks! Amen!
Again, we are so thankful for the provision through the open hearts and hands of so many around the world and around our own community. You all are awesome, and we pray that you will be blessed ten-fold for what you have sacrificed to give on our behalf!
So for now... we wait. Sometimes patiently, some times not so much! But we are waiting and laying it before God nonetheless.
If you have not donated yet and would like to - we are SO THANKFUL for every little bit - you can do so via our pay pal link in the top left corner of this blog. If you missed the post below, our vision was that each person would only have to give $10 if we got enough people involved. Now we only need 150 more people to donate $10 in order to be fully funded to accept the referrals for our girls! So amazing!
You can also keep track of the progress by viewing our facebook event page at: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=266437166730425
Thanks and MUCH LOVE,
Jen and Dan Shultz
Saturday, October 8, 2011
A grand announcement x2!
We'll since it has been well over a month since our last post it's probably a good time to give you a weekly update. Last weekend was fairly exciting for us ... wait did I say fairly? Last weekend was deathly exciting for us in every good way. We held our harvest festival titled Fall FUNd Fest which was a huge success. With the help of many friends and loved ones we had pumpkins, hay rides, pony rides, face painting, bracelet making, scarecrow stuffing, bouncy house, chicken bbq, performances from local musicians and dance studios, and even the uber-popular pumpkin sling! God blessed us with perfect weather for the event and because of His faithfulness to us we were able to raise $5,000 that day. We cannot understate how necessary support was to making this happen. This was the single greatest fundraiser we've held yet. Don't worry, we're planning on topping that soon.
On three separate occasions this week complete, and random strangers have given us checks to help us fund the adoption expenses. Their timing has been perfect. As exciting as Fall FUNd Fest was Jen and I have an announcement to make that will, and deserves to trump this successful fundraiser. This week we laid eyes on our little twin girls for the first time.
That's right people we have a referral, and we couldn't be more excited. We now have faces to make this adoption real to us. It is no longer some great idea we have been hoping for. We are now fighting to bring our children home.
With all the excitement and celebration that comes with this referral we do have a sense of urgency that we need to share with you. In order to accept this referral we need to raise $6,000 more to pay for initial in country fees. We need this soon, very soon. Since we have a desperate issue we're doing something new. Every single fundraiser we've tried our best to offer you something in exchange for your support on our adoption. Yard sales, a pancake breakfast, and kids daycare activities have all given you something to walk away with after throwing some cash our way.
This time we are humbly asking for straight up donations. Here's our breakdown: if 600 people can give us $10 donations we will have raised the $6,000 needed. We hope this is simple and doable enough for you. If you would like to give more that would be fantastic, but we are asking for a minimum of $10 per person if able. How can you do this? If you look to the left under the "Congo time" you will see a paypal donation button. Just click on that button and follow all the necessary steps. Also share this with all your friends. We will be setting up a facebook event for this fundraiser as well.
We're getting closer, but still have some obstacles to go through. We thank you always for your support.
Meet Agape and Shiloh, our beautiful little girls.
On three separate occasions this week complete, and random strangers have given us checks to help us fund the adoption expenses. Their timing has been perfect. As exciting as Fall FUNd Fest was Jen and I have an announcement to make that will, and deserves to trump this successful fundraiser. This week we laid eyes on our little twin girls for the first time.
That's right people we have a referral, and we couldn't be more excited. We now have faces to make this adoption real to us. It is no longer some great idea we have been hoping for. We are now fighting to bring our children home.
With all the excitement and celebration that comes with this referral we do have a sense of urgency that we need to share with you. In order to accept this referral we need to raise $6,000 more to pay for initial in country fees. We need this soon, very soon. Since we have a desperate issue we're doing something new. Every single fundraiser we've tried our best to offer you something in exchange for your support on our adoption. Yard sales, a pancake breakfast, and kids daycare activities have all given you something to walk away with after throwing some cash our way.
This time we are humbly asking for straight up donations. Here's our breakdown: if 600 people can give us $10 donations we will have raised the $6,000 needed. We hope this is simple and doable enough for you. If you would like to give more that would be fantastic, but we are asking for a minimum of $10 per person if able. How can you do this? If you look to the left under the "Congo time" you will see a paypal donation button. Just click on that button and follow all the necessary steps. Also share this with all your friends. We will be setting up a facebook event for this fundraiser as well.
We're getting closer, but still have some obstacles to go through. We thank you always for your support.
Meet Agape and Shiloh, our beautiful little girls.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Quick Update
Just wanted to leave you all with a quick update before we loose power from this major storm. Just in case you live in a different part of the country from us (or world for that matter), we are currently in the middle of experiencing Hurricane Irene. It's been a rather busy time in the Northeast weather wise lately. Apparently we experienced an earthquake last week. Technically Jen and I didn't because we were away.
Anyway, this post is not about the weather. This week coming up is when we will be having our Home Study finalized! We've completed the home visit without any problems and will be meeting with the agency on Sept 1st to have everything finalized. This a major step of the adoption process out of the way putting us about halfway through the paper process. However, we are not quite this far along fund-wise. Currently we have raised slightly over $10,000, which only puts us about 1/4 of the way to our expected goal.
Because of this our attention for a little bit will have to go to some serious fund raising. Particularly our Fall Fest planned for Oct 1st. We hope you are planning to attend. We'll be having lots of fun activities for the whole family to do. I'll be making up a flyer with all the details shortly, and I'll be sure to post it here.
Did you know we have a website? Come check it out here.
Anyway, this post is not about the weather. This week coming up is when we will be having our Home Study finalized! We've completed the home visit without any problems and will be meeting with the agency on Sept 1st to have everything finalized. This a major step of the adoption process out of the way putting us about halfway through the paper process. However, we are not quite this far along fund-wise. Currently we have raised slightly over $10,000, which only puts us about 1/4 of the way to our expected goal.
Because of this our attention for a little bit will have to go to some serious fund raising. Particularly our Fall Fest planned for Oct 1st. We hope you are planning to attend. We'll be having lots of fun activities for the whole family to do. I'll be making up a flyer with all the details shortly, and I'll be sure to post it here.
Did you know we have a website? Come check it out here.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Just in case you didn't know...
So we've heard a lot of talk about under reported the Congo is in the news media in America. I personally hadn't really heard anything about it before we started the adoption process, but I wanted to remain a little more open minded. So while Jen was doing some shopping last night I decided to spend some time in the Barnes & Nobles that was nearby testing my theory.
My first stop, "International Travel". Books on traveling to Morocco, Egypt, Israel, and many others, but no Congo. Fair enough, not much tourism to a war torn country. Next section I sought out was the World History section. The Congo has a pretty eventful history where a lot has happened in the last 100 years, surely books have been written about that? Apparently not. Found books entitled, "Complete Idiot's Guide: Middle East Conflict 4th edition", "British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement", "Israel: A History", and many others involving the same countries you hear about on the news. Another book I found that deserves mention was entitled "A Biography of the Continent Africa". A book that covers the entire history of Africa in less than 700 pages. Now that sounds concise. Ironically the American History section holds a variety of books some including the use of artillery shells in the Civil War, a 500 page book on just that, artillery shells.
I was just beginning to become discouraged when I finally found something. A fair sized book on the bottom of the shelf on King Leopold. This actually sounded promising until I read the back. To my surprise the book was about his control over and dealings with the Congo, however, King Leopold is described as a humanitarian who brought industry to the country. Before we award this noble king with a peace prize let's elaborate on this a little bit. In 1885 Leopold claimed the Congo as his own land naming it "The Congo Free State". The industry that was brought was the entire country being forced into slave labor to mine and collect diamonds, precious metals, and ivory. All the proceeds of these products went to further Leopold's wealth. The working conditions the people of this "free state" had to work under caused the deaths of about 10 million in the almost 30 years he had control over the land. I think we can consider this book slightly inaccurate.
So it turns out that it's true. The troubles in the Congo are under-represented, or ignored at all.
To do my own part to remedy this a little bit here is a short little information about what's going on in that country today:
The Congo is considered to be the worst place in the world to be a woman. It's estimated that a woman is raped almost every minute, and about 400,000 annually. To give you a comparison, the U.S. is about half this amount, and about 1/2-2/3 of these are "date rapes", which are incredibly sad, but the victim doesn't not suffer nearly the level of trauma as other forms of rape.
In the Congo, rape serves as a war tactic for local militias to take control of a village. All the women are gathered together and violently raped in front of the entire village. Many of these women require emergency surgeries or die after these incidents.
Do we wonder why there are no tourism books to the Congo?
Thank you for reading. We humbly ask that you take some time to do some research on the crisis in the Congo.
My first stop, "International Travel". Books on traveling to Morocco, Egypt, Israel, and many others, but no Congo. Fair enough, not much tourism to a war torn country. Next section I sought out was the World History section. The Congo has a pretty eventful history where a lot has happened in the last 100 years, surely books have been written about that? Apparently not. Found books entitled, "Complete Idiot's Guide: Middle East Conflict 4th edition", "British Petroleum and the Redline Agreement", "Israel: A History", and many others involving the same countries you hear about on the news. Another book I found that deserves mention was entitled "A Biography of the Continent Africa". A book that covers the entire history of Africa in less than 700 pages. Now that sounds concise. Ironically the American History section holds a variety of books some including the use of artillery shells in the Civil War, a 500 page book on just that, artillery shells.
I was just beginning to become discouraged when I finally found something. A fair sized book on the bottom of the shelf on King Leopold. This actually sounded promising until I read the back. To my surprise the book was about his control over and dealings with the Congo, however, King Leopold is described as a humanitarian who brought industry to the country. Before we award this noble king with a peace prize let's elaborate on this a little bit. In 1885 Leopold claimed the Congo as his own land naming it "The Congo Free State". The industry that was brought was the entire country being forced into slave labor to mine and collect diamonds, precious metals, and ivory. All the proceeds of these products went to further Leopold's wealth. The working conditions the people of this "free state" had to work under caused the deaths of about 10 million in the almost 30 years he had control over the land. I think we can consider this book slightly inaccurate.
So it turns out that it's true. The troubles in the Congo are under-represented, or ignored at all.
To do my own part to remedy this a little bit here is a short little information about what's going on in that country today:
The Congo is considered to be the worst place in the world to be a woman. It's estimated that a woman is raped almost every minute, and about 400,000 annually. To give you a comparison, the U.S. is about half this amount, and about 1/2-2/3 of these are "date rapes", which are incredibly sad, but the victim doesn't not suffer nearly the level of trauma as other forms of rape.
In the Congo, rape serves as a war tactic for local militias to take control of a village. All the women are gathered together and violently raped in front of the entire village. Many of these women require emergency surgeries or die after these incidents.
Do we wonder why there are no tourism books to the Congo?
Thank you for reading. We humbly ask that you take some time to do some research on the crisis in the Congo.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Why I love the floating lanterns...
I am in LOVE with the movie Tangled! Just love it. First of all, it is really a throw back to the old-school Disney animation, style, and story line, which makes it awesome. Second, I am a real sucker for a nice, innocent, lighthearted - funny - but still tear jerking, love story... one chock full of true love, sacrifice, and redemption. Disney seems to have a knack for this. Third, and perhaps most of all, I love the LANTERNS. They have captivated me. I spent all week trying to build one my myself (complete and utter FAIL, by the way... I want it to be known that they are more complex then Disney makes them out to be!!!). The scene in the movie that stands out the most to me is when Rapunzel and Flynn are out on the boat watching the lanterns set off and swirl around them... the use of light is absolutely breathtaking and gives me chills just thinking about it! But even more special than the beauty of the lanterns themselves is the meaning that they hold for me. In fact, this whole movie is pregnant with symbolism and meaning! Let me explain...
I recently held a girls night sleep-over where we watched the movie Tangled. As I planned out the night, I felt that I wanted to tie the movie in with a devotional that we could do before bed, and I wanted it to have to do with the lanterns. they had so captured my heart and my imagination, and I had the grand idea of making one to set off with the girls after our devotional. I thought about how in the movie the king and queen NEVER gave up on their stolen daughter. Year after year, without any sign to hope of her return, they continued to set off these lanterns on the faith that one day she would see them and come home to their waiting arms. The whole town, in fact, shared in this endeavor for their one little lost princess, for all of her 18 years! To me, this screams of he faithfulness of God. We, his prodigal children have been "stolen" or "kept" away from him - either by our own choices or by the blindness of our hearts - and yet he still seeks us. Every day he sends us messages of love and longing. His most poignant message was in the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most important "lantern of love" to ever grace earth's skies! God does not give up on us, but searches for the ONE out of the 99. And the church shares in the father's heart for the lost, and searches for them too! How awesome is that! But just like Rapunzel felt as though somehow the lanterns were meant for her, yet she did not know what they meant, many people also miss God's messages. We look right past the butterfly on the flower, the veins in the leaf, the kindness of a stranger, and the hug of a child, and do not see the glory of God beckoning us. But he will never stop seeking us! He does not get discouraged! The sun, arguably the BIGGEST lantern we will ever see, continues to rise each day letting us know that mercies are new and alive THIS DAY. God. Never. Gives. Up. On. Us. His love, mercy, and grace astound me... part of me cannot understand such faithful, persevering love...
But another part of me CAN. This is how I am beginning to feel about my children. The ones who I have yet to see. I do not know their faces, I do not know anything about their world, and I do not know if they even have the heart to hope that they will soon get a family... YET I WILL SEEK THEM WITH ALL OF MY HEART. I will never stop trying to get to them: pursue the funding that is necessary, fill out all of the paperwork, educate myself on their Congolese culture, make sure that my heart is prepared to work through their hurts and baggage with them, and so on. I wish I could let them know that I am coming... I am thinking about them... I have not forgotten them... I will bring them home! If only I could set off a lantern, then maybe, somehow, they would see it and know that it was from me for them. I wish it were that easy! Like a Disney movie. :) I think that is why I wanted to make and launch a lantern so badly... because in my heart, it would be for them. Just like the king and queen seeking their lost daughter, never losing hope. But even if I can't physically send my children a message, I can do something just as powerful....
I can send my message to God in prayer. He holds my children in his hands even now, and he always will. Even after we adopt them, they will still belong to Jesus first and foremost! He knew them and he knew that we would be family before he created them. Moreover, they were created for Dan and I, and Dan and I were created for them. What a miracle! So, when I pray to the Lord, it is like I am sending him floating lantern messages, glowing with my deepest dreams, hopes, and hurts. In response, he can reach and meet the needs of my children wherever they are until I can get to them. My messages touch my Abba Father's heart. And the best part it, I do not have to wonder whether he received them... I can KNOW that he hears every whisper of my heart! Thankfully, I do not have to be able to build a successful floating lantern to do this either, or I'd be in big trouble, LOL!
So there you have it... why I love the movie Tangled. Why it chokes me up to see those lanterns. Why I am so obsessed with setting one off... and watching it float gently out of sight like a shooting star in slow motion, gleaming across the night sky and heading toward to horizon. Now you know that when I see them I am thinking about my children over in the Congo wishing I could send them a message... and until that day comes I am just talking about it with Jesus.
And I am working to get to them - seeking them - never giving up until I hold them in my arms!
I recently held a girls night sleep-over where we watched the movie Tangled. As I planned out the night, I felt that I wanted to tie the movie in with a devotional that we could do before bed, and I wanted it to have to do with the lanterns. they had so captured my heart and my imagination, and I had the grand idea of making one to set off with the girls after our devotional. I thought about how in the movie the king and queen NEVER gave up on their stolen daughter. Year after year, without any sign to hope of her return, they continued to set off these lanterns on the faith that one day she would see them and come home to their waiting arms. The whole town, in fact, shared in this endeavor for their one little lost princess, for all of her 18 years! To me, this screams of he faithfulness of God. We, his prodigal children have been "stolen" or "kept" away from him - either by our own choices or by the blindness of our hearts - and yet he still seeks us. Every day he sends us messages of love and longing. His most poignant message was in the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most important "lantern of love" to ever grace earth's skies! God does not give up on us, but searches for the ONE out of the 99. And the church shares in the father's heart for the lost, and searches for them too! How awesome is that! But just like Rapunzel felt as though somehow the lanterns were meant for her, yet she did not know what they meant, many people also miss God's messages. We look right past the butterfly on the flower, the veins in the leaf, the kindness of a stranger, and the hug of a child, and do not see the glory of God beckoning us. But he will never stop seeking us! He does not get discouraged! The sun, arguably the BIGGEST lantern we will ever see, continues to rise each day letting us know that mercies are new and alive THIS DAY. God. Never. Gives. Up. On. Us. His love, mercy, and grace astound me... part of me cannot understand such faithful, persevering love...
But another part of me CAN. This is how I am beginning to feel about my children. The ones who I have yet to see. I do not know their faces, I do not know anything about their world, and I do not know if they even have the heart to hope that they will soon get a family... YET I WILL SEEK THEM WITH ALL OF MY HEART. I will never stop trying to get to them: pursue the funding that is necessary, fill out all of the paperwork, educate myself on their Congolese culture, make sure that my heart is prepared to work through their hurts and baggage with them, and so on. I wish I could let them know that I am coming... I am thinking about them... I have not forgotten them... I will bring them home! If only I could set off a lantern, then maybe, somehow, they would see it and know that it was from me for them. I wish it were that easy! Like a Disney movie. :) I think that is why I wanted to make and launch a lantern so badly... because in my heart, it would be for them. Just like the king and queen seeking their lost daughter, never losing hope. But even if I can't physically send my children a message, I can do something just as powerful....
I can send my message to God in prayer. He holds my children in his hands even now, and he always will. Even after we adopt them, they will still belong to Jesus first and foremost! He knew them and he knew that we would be family before he created them. Moreover, they were created for Dan and I, and Dan and I were created for them. What a miracle! So, when I pray to the Lord, it is like I am sending him floating lantern messages, glowing with my deepest dreams, hopes, and hurts. In response, he can reach and meet the needs of my children wherever they are until I can get to them. My messages touch my Abba Father's heart. And the best part it, I do not have to wonder whether he received them... I can KNOW that he hears every whisper of my heart! Thankfully, I do not have to be able to build a successful floating lantern to do this either, or I'd be in big trouble, LOL!
So there you have it... why I love the movie Tangled. Why it chokes me up to see those lanterns. Why I am so obsessed with setting one off... and watching it float gently out of sight like a shooting star in slow motion, gleaming across the night sky and heading toward to horizon. Now you know that when I see them I am thinking about my children over in the Congo wishing I could send them a message... and until that day comes I am just talking about it with Jesus.
And I am working to get to them - seeking them - never giving up until I hold them in my arms!
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