Court Date Delayed

While I would love to share with you joyous news, our children are not yet officially ours. Despite assurances to the contrary, the letters of support needed from the Ministry of Women's Affairs (MOWA) were not complete today. The court needs these letters to complete our adoption in Ethiopia. The MOWA has promised that the letters will be ready on Thursday. The judge has graciously rescheduled our court appointments for that day (12/13) in the afternoon. I'm disappointed, but I half expected that this would happen. I'm very grateful that we don't have to wait another month for a court date. So, we still do not have a good idea of when our group will travel to Ethiopia, but I'm guessing it won't be until after the new year.

I'm reminded of the quote that Fil posted a short while back on one of his monthly musings:

"Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will."
~Jeremy Collier

That quote gives me hope that our waiting will (eventually) bear fruit.