One Month Ago

One month ago yesterday, we attended the Farewell Ceremony at the orphanage where Joseph was living and then he spent his first night with his momma! The farewell ceremony was emotional and memorable. One of the nannies brought Joseph down wearing a traditional Ethiopian outfit and then we were serenaded by some of the children in the orphanage. The children who were also leaving with their families that day then cut a farewell cake for everyone. Joseph ate every last piece of his cake and then we made our way out the gates for the last time and on to the bus.





So much has happened since we left those gates of the orphanage. While Joseph seems to be adjusting incredibly well and is certainly bonding with mom and dad, there are times when we know he is grieving over what he had to say goodbye to on that day. And we grieve with him knowing the heartache that even a child at his age can bear. Fortunately, we have the foresight to know that he will certainly be loved by our family. As a child, though, he is not able to see what his future with us holds. As I have reflected on this over the past month I have thought - isn't this a reflection of our relationship with our heavenly Father? We don't understand the trials, tribulations, and hard times here on earth but one day we will see our creator face-to-face and know fully how perfect His plan was.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
1 Cor 13:11-12