Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
-Sai Baba
I'm sorry we have been so quiet. International adoption is a lot of waiting. Honestly, It is more waiting than I'd imagined and I knew a lot about international adoption walking in to this. If we needed a lesson in patience, international adoption will teach it.
It is also a lot of uncertainty. During the course of our adoption efforts, The Child's country had it's entire governmental structure collapse and we didn't know how that would affect him, or us, or the adoption. We still don't know for sure but we are moving forward just the same.
Now, we are uncertain how we can pay our next set of fees. We have had to rely on kindness and credit and we've about reached the limit of our credit. The Devil is interfering, doing his best to delay and derail us when he took out our central heat and air unit last week. I have no idea how we are going to afford to replace that AND meet our next set of fees due this month unless we fund raise nearly every penny of our fees. If there is another lesson international adoption can teach, it is humility.
Last night, while I was wracking my brain to think of a quick fundraiser, I was looking at our adoption page on Facebook and realized that we have 78 people that like that page. If those 78 people all donated $10 one week, it would be $780 raised towards our fees. If those same people all donated $10 each week for 4 weeks in a row, That would be about half of our fees that are going to be due this month. That would be a HUGE help.
I know money is tight for everyone. We don't have rich friends and family. If we did, I'd like to think y'all wouldn't be hearing about how difficult it's been for us to fund raise. But $10 a week isn't a huge amount for one person. That's two cups of coffee. However, if 78 of you all do this small donation together, That will be a huge amount. And if you can all do it for four weeks, that will be even bigger.
So this is my challenge to you, this is my heartfelt plea, for you to participate? Would you donate $10 each week for four weeks? I'll post gentle reminders to help you remember. I'll post how close we are to the goal each week. We really need the $3k by mid June or our path through this adoption will be delayed. We are so close now to visiting the child. We are mid that gory middle ground half way through the journey where it feels like it should get easier from here on out but it's uphill and the Ring is heavy and we're tired and Sam Wise is doing his best to carry us but he can't do it alone so our only option is to move more slowly and make the child wait...
This breaks my heart because The Child has already waited 4 years for us.
This is the link to our donations page.
Feel free to share this post if you think anyone you know would like to help us as well. We really do need all the help and support that we can get.
Thank you, all, for following our journey and for assisting us through it.
Let's see if we can do this, together.
