He has not forgotten!

We received video of our baby boy this week from our adoption agency and are eagerly awaiting our baby girl's coming soon.  I did not realize how many emotions would accompany watching such a short little 4 minute video, but boy they did. I was, for some ridiculous reason, envisioning a bouncing, chubby, playful little tidbit of our future son smiling in the camera wide for his mommy and daddy across the ocean. Instead, we sat and stared at 4 minutes of a teeny, tiny, skinny Little Buddy fuss and cry. Seeing him tightly clinch his little hands and wave them about absolutely broke our hearts. We just wanted to come to his rescue. To go to that orphanage TODAY, and take him home.


As I was sitting there pathetically teary-eyed, Justin reminded me that Little Buddy is in the best of hands- God. We forwarded to the next little frame on the video which was a slide show set to a praise song in true African style sung by children. The chorus went like this: “I am not forgotten! I am not forgotten! I am not forgotten, He knows my name! He knows my name!” That song was such an encouragement and reminder that though we feel so far from our kids and wonder what kind of care they are receiving, ultimately we can trust that God is meeting all of their needs.

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Before bed that night, I turned to Isaiah 49 and was encouraged by these passages as I considered our babies and so many other children in orphanages in Ethiopia.

13- Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

14- But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me."

15- "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!"

Though our babies biological parents have literally forsaken them, our God has not! He has such amazing things in store for their lives. Better than the care we can give is the care that God is giving them even now. He knows their names! He created their frames in the secret place. And He is rejoicing over them with singing. Praise the Lord that He has not forgotten them, or us.