Good Friday & 6 month waiting date

1 Peter 3:18, “For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.”

What is Good Friday?

Good Friday is the day that marks when Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross for our salvation. Catholics are also supposed to meditate and pray between the hours of noon to three o'clock in the afternoon. These are the hours Jesus hung on the cross.
Good Friday is called good because on this day Jesus was crucified for our redemption of our sins.

Today we've officially been waiting for 6 months. Our agency tells people who are waiting for siblings they can expect their wait to be anywhere from 1 to 6 months for siblings. Unless you are requesting one child to be an infant. Then the wait can extend beyond 6 months. (That's us)

Every two weeks our agency has a conference call that updates families on who's next on the list. This is done by giving the date the next family sent in their dossier. A dossier is all of the required paperwork the country, in our case Ethiopia, to process an adoption.

It's relatively easy to calculate how much longer you have to wait if you have specific request for infant. Example, if you are waiting for a female infant and you sent in your dossier in November of 2006 and they tell you the next person on the list is June, 2006 you can estimate your wait to be another 5 months.

When you're in the siblings category there are to many variables to take into account. It's not so easy to determine an estimated date. What makes it a bit easier is we know very few people ask for siblings groups. The next family on the list is September, 2006. We're October, 2006. I almost come out of my skin when I say that but I try to stay cool. We've had so many highs and lows. At this point I'm shoving everything down deep. I'll break down when we get "the call."

Of course we don't know how many families there are between September and October. Nor do we know what their requests are. Although I secretly hope they're very specific. Like-two siblings-one male under 12 months and one female under 24 months. See the more specific you are with your request for siblings the narrower your odds of being matched. The major unknown is what children will be brought to our agencies orphanage.

As we continue to wait we've found a song that expresses our prayer for our children. To hear it click here.