Benefit dinner Thanks

We had our Benefit dinner at church this past Friday. I want to thank everyone who turned out in the bad weather to support us. We raised over 1800.00 praise God. Every penny counts and gets us closer to our kids. We had lots of fun and food. Still eating spaghetti leftovers. Only about 25lbs of it was left:)

This past weekend was busy for us. With the dinner Friday and then Saturday Jim and I took a much needed break and went out on a date for our anniversary. It was great to get to spend some alone time talking and laughing. We all need that. Our anniversary was Sunday ( same day as the Ethiopian elections) we spent the day at church and then home in the garage cleaning Jims new/ very old car seats. I thought all day off and on about the elections and how this one day could affect our adoption. Everytime I think about it I pray "Lord, please let the right person be elected to this office that will have your heart for these orphans." We will not hear anything form this region for a while. I am guessing months. But in this wait our kids are being fed and loved. They are hearing of Jesus and he is working in their hearts.

I read a story that is so true. people see 147 million orphans world wide and think wow it's too much. What can we do to help that will make a difference. Sure you can adopt one or two children but it's not making a dent. To those of you and sometimes me who think this way here's a story you might need to hear.

"A Father and daughter were walking on the beach. The beach was filled with starfish that washed ashore from a storm. They would all surely die, being outside the water. The father watched as the daughter picked up a starfish, and walked up to the water and carefully placed it back in. She did this over and over and over. The Father, while filled with Pride for his daughter, comments. Honey. Why are you doing that? You are not going to make a difference, look at all those starfish. They are everywhere (as he motions to the thousands of starfish across the beach) As the Daughter picked up another starfish, carries it to the waters edge and places it into the water, the Daughter replies. "It made a difference to that one"

It matters to that one child you adopt, sponsor or pray for greatly. this just puts it all in perspective for me. It's all overwhelming when you look at it all but God didn't call me to look at 147 Million he only called me to look at our two in Ethiopia... for now:)