Connected to Those Who “Get It”
Posted on July 27, 2010 by The Tapestry Team
As I am typing this, our beautiful daughter is sleeping in her crib just a few feet away. Holding her in my arms as she nestled down for rest, I began to reflect on where we were a little over a year ago.
Spring of 2009 held very different thoughts and emotions than those we are experiencing now. Spring, the time of new life and renewal, had been disappointing. After the initial excitement of deciding to adopt from Ethiopia, completing our paperwork, and beginning our wait, our agency informed us that our wait time would be double what we initially thought. Our Spring looked bleak as we settled in for more waiting. While I am not a sentimental person when it comes to holidays, Mother’s Day hit me with a vengeance. I was shocked by the intensity of my emotions that day as I felt so helpless and sad. We were later to find out that our daughter was born only days before that Mother’s Day. That Spring had brought an amazing life into this world; so far away in Gondar, Ethiopia, our daughter had been born! God’s timing, as always, had been perfect.
Read the entire story by Carmen Scroggin from the Summer 2010 issue of the Tapestry Newsletter.
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