I have been wanting to put up since mid-January. I heard this radio broadcast on my way to work one mid-January morning. I listen to Focus On the Family each morning while on the road to my job about 15 minutes away, and I heard a program of Haiti Earthquake survivor Dan Wooley. If you'd like to hear it yourself, you can visit the Focus On the Family website (www.focusonthefamily.com), and search for the January 12 broadcast episode called "Rising from the Rubble of Haiti". This survivor speaks of his hours and days of waiting in the rubble of his 6 story hotel following the earthquake, and how it felt to be found and rescued. He speaks of a French rescue team who tells Dan (and those trapped with him) that they know that they are there and that they would be coming for them. I continued to listen as he talked about how it felt to know that he wasn't just lost, that he had been found and his name had been placed on a list to be rescued...that he was not just stuck somewhere without anyone having knowledge he was there waiting and what a wonderful feeling that was.
Wow. It struck me like a ton of bricks...is this how the orphaned child feel when there is someone to claim them or long to feel when they are waiting for someone to come? Do they wonder if they are just "stuck" where life has them...that no one knows they are even there to come for? Do they know that there name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life? That they are not lost to God? Oh Lord, thank you for continually breaking my heart and reminding me of the orphaned and unclaimed children in our world...and reminding me of how it felt to be claimed by you. Help me to change the world for at least one of them.
On another note, our home study (after moving and some other what-nots) has finally been approved! So we can now begin the next process of applying to the United States Citizenship & Immigration Services Dept...then on to the dossier! Yee Ha!
