Trip Home
20 hours of traveling and we are officially jet lagged. A lot of checking baggage, a body search pat down and drudging through 3 airports - we finally made it home. We had no idea of the state of things with the world until we woke up today. What a difference a day makes! Yes, we are home. As we flew from Ukraine to Frankfurt I could not turn off the tears. Every time the thought of Edward and Elizabeth came to mind I felt my heart break in a million pieces. We never really slept Tuesday night. I know Jeff has posted and you all have gotten the feeling of our experience. I will try not to be redundant. As he shared, we truly knew immediately that this was it. The hair stood up on my arms, my heart was beating out of my chest. We had almost given up. Sweet precious gift from God after sweet precious gift from God, not quite feeling it until then and we knew. Then we rushed to get tickets, we rushed to eat, we rushed to say good bye to our family and friends who were still in the city and packed - four hours later we headed to the airport.
It sounds so cliche but as I looked out the window of the plane - that is when it all set in. There are two little lambs out there. Do they know we are dying to see them? Will God some how let them know they have a family now? The tears came in buckets. I am sure the people must have wondered what the heck was going on between Jeff and I. The night before I "what if'd" our facilitator to death. Of course he could not answer with that certain surety I was aiming for. Ultimately, he said there is no surety in life. That was not exactly what I wanted to hear. But they are questions that He already knows. I have to put my faith in that - and I do most times - but this is such a fragile thing. I finally have to just resolve myself to the fact that He does want us to have His best. It is only 2 months away for a lifetime together.
Please keep us in your prayers. And please pray for children's mother. This will sound crazy but after all of the children who we looked at and read their bio's - we do not remember what the circumstance was with the children being given up. But I cannot imagine what she must have felt when she signed her heart away.
Please keep up the prayers for us. We need them now more than ever. We have felt them to and thank you all so much. Thanks too for the encouraging posts. How did we ever deserve such a wonderful family and friends. We are blessed beyond our wildest dreams!
Jen
It sounds so cliche but as I looked out the window of the plane - that is when it all set in. There are two little lambs out there. Do they know we are dying to see them? Will God some how let them know they have a family now? The tears came in buckets. I am sure the people must have wondered what the heck was going on between Jeff and I. The night before I "what if'd" our facilitator to death. Of course he could not answer with that certain surety I was aiming for. Ultimately, he said there is no surety in life. That was not exactly what I wanted to hear. But they are questions that He already knows. I have to put my faith in that - and I do most times - but this is such a fragile thing. I finally have to just resolve myself to the fact that He does want us to have His best. It is only 2 months away for a lifetime together.
Please keep us in your prayers. And please pray for children's mother. This will sound crazy but after all of the children who we looked at and read their bio's - we do not remember what the circumstance was with the children being given up. But I cannot imagine what she must have felt when she signed her heart away.
Please keep up the prayers for us. We need them now more than ever. We have felt them to and thank you all so much. Thanks too for the encouraging posts. How did we ever deserve such a wonderful family and friends. We are blessed beyond our wildest dreams!
Jen
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