Give me your eyes

Give me your eyes for just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I keep missing
Give me your love for humanity
Give me your arms for the broken-hearted
The ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see

The first time I heard this song, I was undone. I remember singing and praying that God would give me His eyes to see. Sometimes I think I carelessly pray for things and then when He answers, I realize what I really prayed for is bigger than I ever imagined. When I first heard this song, Africa was nowhere on my radar screen. Adopting from Africa was even farther off of it. Yet here I am waiting for the last piece of information to get to my agency so we can then begin the wait for our child. I can tell you now that I am so grateful that I prayed that prayer and God answered it. I have changed so much in the past several months. The level of intimacy and dependence I have with God is amazing. I have been a Christ follower for over 15 years yet in so many ways, I feel like a new believer. There is a done side to this prayer. The down side is that when your eyes are opened to what God sees, your heart will break. I am haunted at night by what I have seen. Families starving, children dying from treatable diseases,and children being drowned because they are considered "mingi"(unclean). Now that my eyes have seen, I am responsible. At times I think what difference is my adopting one or two children going to make. I then remember that the God who created everything out of nothing is the one whose idea this is. So I still don't know the answer to that question but I do know that God does.

So here is where we are in the process. We are waiting for our home study to be sent to our agency to be proofed. As soon as that happens, it will be signed and notarized and sent to our agency and immigration. We will then be issued an I-171h and be put on the waiting list. The list has been growing so I am hoping that this happens sooner rather than later. Depending on how long referrals are taking we should travel sometime in the summer or early fall. Everything is moving along with our fund raiser. We just found out that our friends from Charlotte are coming in for it so we are even more excited! I will be listing all of the silent auctions here in the next week so that those of you who can't attend but want to bid will be able to. Also, one of my friends is making a piece of jewelry with Africa on it. I can't wait to show it to all of you. I did tell her that she was going to have to make more for the rest of you adoptive mommies! Thanks again for all of your support and prayers.